• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    Do you guys…speak Chinese? I don’t. So they wouldn’t do me any good. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’ve come across them and couldn’t read them.

    Doesn’t the great firewall mostly censor access within the country? It searches for keywords of topics they don’t want their people reading. As for information leaving/entering the country, it’s still accessible, it just prioritizes domestic information. But yeah, sounds like a great system that would totally pwn me and my beliefs as an anti-statist and someone who sees communism as flawed—not to mention whatever china is operating under now, which sure as shit isn’t communism lol

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      1 year ago

      There are about as many Chinese people who speak English as a second language as there are Americans speaking English natively.

      I’m sure you would notice it if they had unrestricted access to the internet. They can’t all be lurking.

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        1 year ago

        there’s like a lot of chinese people in china

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        I lived in China for a few years and the number of Chinese people who think they can speak English is a lot different than the number of people who actually can speak English and be understood by other English speakers.

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      Doesn’t the great firewall mostly censor access within the country?

      Yeah, I was gonna say this meme has got the labels backwards.