Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd

Re:Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd by schuke on Sunday May 30, 2021 @12:28PM (#27334359)

Too simple, sometimes naïve. I see what your did there ;)

I pointed out GFW as one example, and actually agree with you that it’s not the only reason exchanges are so limited.

However, I do notice that examples of failed Western attempts to penetrate China usually stops at Amazon and eBay: after these, popular platforms have been so pro-actively blocked that it’s impossible to know what outcome would be if they were given to chance to freely compete. And the internet turned social, which in nature runs against the Party’s grip on speech.

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Re:Don't take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd by bingbong70 on Sunday May 30, 2021 @07:01PM (#27337795)

I personally think the GFW is a good thing, for now, that other developing countries may have an interest in copying. Free flowing mass communication in nations without fully developed public (security) services can be a disaster... the conflicts (and even genocides) that arose from poorer countries adopting FB come to mind.

Also a foreign entity with suspicious partners having direct access to naive citizens around the world should be viewed as an attack vector especially if the locally accepted values don't match those of foreign entity.

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