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Re:Is This the End of Crypto? by miohtama on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:37PM (#33642536)
If you shut down Internet, your economy suffers.

Even China cannot block Github, because it would harm their economy too much. Chinese developers need to access Github (PyPi, NPM), or they are not productive. The global software industry is built on the top of Western science that relies of on freedom of information. Thus, they need to let free information to flow against the authorianship will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China

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Re:Is This the End of Crypto? by notpushkin on Thursday November 17, 2022 @03:16PM (#33644992)
That's interesting! I thought China developers had npm / PyPI etc. mirrored so that they don't have to deal with the slowed worldwide versions.

UPD: that said, I agree that the Chinese Firewall is about as far as you can shut off the Internet in a modern country (at least without turning into another North Korea).

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