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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by bsder on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:35PM (#26245033)
> Despite having the unblocked access, I've noticed that only very few Chinese are interested in reading foreign news sources or using foreign social media/video platforms.

To be fair, I assume language is also a barrier.

I'm sure not going out of my way to learn Chinese to access Chinese language information sources. I would hardly expect the inverse.

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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:46PM (#26245155)
But many Chinese speak English because they deal with international trade. So this doesn't really work the same both ways.
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Re:I helped build ByteDance's censorship machine by fakedang on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:01AM (#26247698)
A significant number of Chinese can understand English if not speak it. 1% of China is still 20% of the UK.
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