Taiwan is not part of China
Not even Taiwan says that though. ;)
Nice try, Xi!
acknowledging the Chinese position that there is but one China and Taiwan is part of China
The US “acknowledges China’s position” on Taiwan, but carefully avoids an explicit official stance on Taiwanese sovereignty.
They don’t acknowledge Taiwan “sovereignty” because they support the claim that the legitimate government of all of China is the one in Taiwan.
No, they do not.
Their de facto stance is that the Taiwanese government is sovereign over the island, but they formally accept that the PRC is the government of China.
It’s a careful line between ensuring the continued de facto independence of their key ally, without inducing the inevitable temper tantrum from China of formally treating them as independent.
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Arent the Falklands largely populated b people of British descent? Also I just skimmed the wiki article and while Argentina did attempt to settle the islands in the early 1800s, that was over 200 years ago and the island has been held decently well by the British since.
Plus I doubt the Falklanders want to be part of the shitshow that is Argentina, the UK may be a mess but they usually let their random islands do their own thing.
There was a referendum on the subject and apparently only one person on the entire Island voted to be Argentinian, and he had an Argentinian wife so possibly a biased opinion.
It was obviously a secret vote but given the fact that he was the only one that ever said anything pro Argentinian, it was pretty easy to work out.
Both countries might have right wing nationalist governments but at least the UK’s government is incompetent and is therefore unlikely to be a major threat to your liberty.
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Oh man Hexbear would be so pissed if they could read.
Taiwan can use VPN (not restricted) and not against the law. Just saying.
against who’s law
Against Taiwanese law. Taiwan is an independent nation and its liberty is non-negotiable.
China coast guard coming to put a big net around your house as we speak.
I can see they’re already building small sand atolls off the coast
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Who the fuck cares about official claims? I guess the war in Ukraine is about denazifying since that’s the official statement :)
Realistically though, official claims are diplomatic UN roleplay and actions are what matters; the US states that Taiwan is not independent but arms the absolute cock out of what they claim is ch*na.
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I didn’t specify which claim it was, I pointed out how hollow and contextual those claims are.
Is Taiwan claiming to be independent in the chambers of the UN? No.
Does it act, and is it acted upon as if it was independent? Yes.
Am I a cop? No.
Am I the cop who arrested your mom in her bed chamber last night after she confessed to have been real naughty? Yes.
It’s fascinating to see someone come across nuance for the first time.
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against whose* law
Weird, it’s almost like they all have something in common…
Tankies hate this one weird trick
The Tankies are baned Russia, apparently they are subversive. It seems that no one likes them very much.
Thank god this list isn’t any larger, it’s amazing more governments haven’t tried to ban this tool that ensures people’s freedoms
Thing is, a VPN isn’t just some magic tool that lets you view location-restricted content and hides your IP address. It’s a relatively basic networking concept.
Essentially, it allows you to connect two or more local networks, i.e. LANs, as if they were one big LAN.
In particular, that means no firewalls in the way, no weird NAT behaviour, no need to deal with public IP addresses and so on.
And it secures the whole communication with encryption + implements a form of authentication, so that you can leave the individual services within the VPN relatively unsecured (assuming you don’t separately expose them outside the LAN/VPN).Or more concretely, my dayjob uses a VPN for the whole home office thing. And I’ve used VPNs plenty times just as a networking tool in my software developer job. Prohibiting the entire concept of VPNs makes many software solutions impossible or annoying to build, and will cause folks to expose insecure services to the internet.
The UK government tried to restrict VPN usage (not that they ever explained what restrict meant in that scenario) but as with most stupid things that the UK government says, everyone just ignored them and then it didn’t happen.
I suspect somebody with two brain cells to rub together explain to them the process and since it sounded complicated they gave up with it.
I believe Australia tried to ban encryption. Not just VPNs, but all encryption. Like, bruh good luck with that. Source: trust me bro (im an Australian and therefore too lazy to figure out if this is hyperbole or not)
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Just to make it clear, the VPN restriction in Turkey is not enforced, nor hindered. Of course it was put in place as a form of restriction against people’s protest organization via Twitter back in 2013 during the Gezi Park protests, but it is not enforced (at least widely, if at all). Even the leading opposition party has an official support for a VPN under their name.
Nevertheless, as far as the map’s intent goes, it is an indicator of a dictatorship.
Pictures of playing cards on websites get entire subnets blocked for gambling in Turkey, so I’m surprised to learn they don’t enforce rules against VPNs.
The same list as countries that you should never step your foot on
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So Russia demonstrably isn’t cool
Right? Choose one
Every country is cool and has beauty, but when the government is crazy assholes you need to stay away.
You don’t know shit about Turkey apparently.
explain.
turkey is just terrible. arresting tourists over the most simple thing, stupid eedo wife kissing tiny ppl thinking they are children, geocide against armenians and kurds…
go tell me…what NOT to hate about turkey. small dick energy country like “oooh we wann be called turkyie or bharat but not turkey coz we so weak our finance minister has sex with presidents relatives…”
They got them cats though
Hey look, it’s the bad guys!
EDIT: Not sure why OP downvoted me unless he’s a bootlicking authoritarian piece of shit.
The US doesn’t ban VPNs - and it’s a worse “bad guy” than all of those countries put together.
Textbook example of moral confusion.
Just to be clear… what am I supposed to be “confused” about?
I have far, far more than this to be “confused” about… do you want me to share more of this “confusion” with you?
All of the above. Any questions?
monkey brain
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How does well does Tor work in those countries?
Inconsistently and only through relays
What do businesses do with remote offices/workers?
you can’t use VPN were endpoint is used read censored materials. If it’s within the country, than OK
illegal
Believe or not, straight to jail
Can’t speak for most of these places but I’m pretty doubtful in general.
I have no idea what it means for VPNs to be restricted in Turkey for example… I use them almost every day. Personal, self hosted, commercial, corporate… Both using them while I’m in Turkey to get information from the outside and when I’m outside trying to get information from the inside.
I’ve never had any issue using them. Like literally ever.
https://protonvpn.com/blog/are-vpns-illegal/
In 2016, the Erdogan regime began blocking VPN services and Tor. Now Turkey is using deep packet inspection techniques, similar to China, to detect and block VPN and Tor traffic.
The use of a VPN connection in Turkey can also mark you out as a person of interest for law enforcement. Despite this, VPN usage in Turkey is quite widespread.
The website Turkey Blocks monitors internet censorship in Turkey.
you copy pasted this from reddit
it had no sources
it is wrong
you are a very bad person
no one on Lemmy is disputing this map
you are all also bad
Guilty as charged.
Could you list the correct version if available?
On part of Russia, this one is true
India too
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