Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo...
by insane_dreamer on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:58PM
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> Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day?
surprised as you may be, the vast majority certainly do not use Wikipedia
Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo...
by throw-the-towel on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:09PM
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Baidu, the local Internet giant, has its own encyclopedia.
You'd be surprised how different some countries are in their Internet usage. Russians don't really use Facebook, and Google faced an uphill battle to be accepted there. Czechs apparently prefer homegrown map services (such as Seznam) to Google Maps.
...but seriously: The Chinese state pretends that Wikipedia is banned in China. Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day?
Routing around a ban of this nature is so utterly trivial, and the primary audience of TikTok is strongly integrative of demographics which are digital natives accustomed to subverting such bans (heck, they got almost universal training in this area by having to jailbreak their school-issued tablets).