It can not be overstated how important the Great Firewall was to China's growth and stability today. Imagine how splintered and chaotic China would be if Facebook, Google and Twitter were free to infect their population with Western propaganda.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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Xi please extended the wall and let us in. Imagine if we were free from that too.
HB is blocked btw. HB, .ml, and grad seem to be the only ones. Pifed.social blocks China.
lemmygrad is not blocked, at least according to this site.
Hexbear is likely blocked because of some unaffiliated crypto currency scam a few years ago that had hex in the name.
no idea about ml, maybe because the TLD is from mali? lemmygrad also has a .ml TLD however so idk.
Sorry, it's my fault, I sent Xi cringe
Oh you're right about grad, it gives me a "connection timed out" page, then reloads it normally, weird.
i tested more links there, apparently lemmy.ml is blocked, but dbzer0, feddit, .world, .zip, beehaw aren't..?
https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=hexbear.net
ah wait, what??
Very good chance that Hexbear was just temporarily down lol
It can not be overstated how important the Great Firewall was to China's growth and stability today.
Is there an apology form for previous opposition to the great firewall? Or just their censorship in general.
Yeah. I used to be really anti-censorship, but now I'm more "no investigation, no right to speak." Which means I do a lot of not speaking 'cause I have much to learn still.
It’s right to be extremely skeptical of censorship but I think we’ve fully tested at this point whether there should be censorship of some kind. The answer being yes. Covid really put it to the test.
Oh you cannot even access instagram there please can I come in
i don't have an account so i can't access insta either
Remember when that tell-all came out from the former FB exec that was always getting super angry at China for not letting FB in as she documented all the ways FB regularly tried to sidestep China's laws and regulations?
love too title my oblivious confession Careless People
China knows the lizard people are untrustworthy.
Makes a hot or not website
CIA see potential
Spend $86 billion on a shitty second life clone
Kill animals with a bow and arrow then eat them because you question your value as a man
Common China W
Ask Xi Xinping to name your baby
This is so wild.
Also, where does Zuck's chuddification fit in the timeline? Did he start wearing the chains after the last china rejection?
I'm pretty sure that and the haircut change started after he let his nictitating membrane slip in that congressional hearing.
The discourse for like a whole month afterward was he was an alien lizardman, and he immediately pivoted from "I am literally Caesar Augustus" to Quirky Faillennial Tech CEO
Maybe it's a mercy. If he becomes Chinese they know they're gonna execute him.
Xi please
It would be a cruelty to make the Chinese tolerate him long enough for him to do crimes that cause material harm to people warranting his execution. Which might take weeks or even a few months.
The dude is that boring.
Man it's like this government has some sort of Principles... no that couldn't be it
He began with the issue, which is that he let China know who he is.
Ohhh OP reveals to me why China allows billionaires to exist... it's so they have people whose jobs it is to deal with shit like talking to Zuckerberg
need to update the red sails article
- Billionaires work as “adapters” to the rest of the capitalist world, enabling trade and collaboration as well as tempering anxiety arising from fear of the unknown, which helps prevent encirclement.
i dispute that a multi-millionaire couldn't do anything a billionaire is purported to do. just tax them more damn.
a multi-millionaire couldn't do anything a billionaire is purported to do
you think a millionaire could really sit there and talk to and listen to zuckerberg without sweating?
shit i'd do it for minimum wage if they let me live over there
I don’t even understand why he bothers. Is it just western hubris?
He’s no longer the quirky college drop out go getter. His name and company are synonymous with profit via poison. If you already have the infrastructure in place to replace him, there’s no reason to ever consider his products. The only value he has is that the company has access to billions of people’s info across the world, and I’m sure China is already able to access that through data brokers and espionage
The line must go up, and the rest of the market is thoroughly tapped already. Gotta try to expand literally anywhere they can.