Please understand that Chinese government wants to block "outside" web services to Chinese residents, and Chinese residents want to access those services. So if the service itself decides to deny access from China, it's actually helping the Chinese government.

Whether you like it or not, over 15% of the world's population lives in China.

I guess they should fix their government, then.

What an incredibly naive and dismissive thing to say.

It isn't naive, and isn't dismissive.

The problem is the CCP.

The only fix is for the people to rise up against them.

This doesn't even have to be violent. Most of the former Soviet Block governments fell without any bloodshed.

What's the alternative? Wait for Xi to "make his mark on history" in the same way that Putin is doing in Ukraine because it's "naive and dismissive" to even talk about unseating him?

It is always so funny to read Americans or Western Europeans saying "just overthrow your dictator bro". Usually told by people who never faced any political violence, or any violence for that matter.

I was born and live in the ex-Soviet country, and stating that Soviet governments fell without any bloodshed is a proof of ignorance.

By 2017 Xi Jinping already had six failed assassination attempts against him, which prompted him to perform a large-scale purge within the ranks of the CCP.

If it was all that easy, it would have been done a long time ago.

> Most of the former Soviet Block governments fell without any bloodshed.

That was Gorbachev. Most leaders of any country would roll tanks.

Gorbachev sent the tanks rolling in Lithuania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_Events).

And uncensored websites that function through the great firewall would help organize that government fixing.

I mean, you're not wrong. But if you happen to not be in a position to overthrow the government, maybe the next best thing can be a more realistic approach.

Are you a citizen of China, or move there for work/education/research?

Anyway, this is very unrelated, but I'm in the USA and have been trying to sign up for the official learning center for CAXA 3D Solid Modeling (I believe it's the same program as IronCAD, but CAXA 3D in China seems to have 1000x more educational videos and Training on the software) and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the WeChat/SMS login system they use to work to be able to access the training videos. Is it just impossible for a USA phone number to receive direct SMS website messages from a mainland China website to establish accounts? Seems like every website uses SMS message verification instead of letting me sign up with an email.