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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there's like a lot of chinese people in china

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most of them, in fact

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, most. But not all. There are currently approximately 50 million Chinese people living elsewhere.

That's a lot more than the domestic population of many individual countries.

[–] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Memeing is easier than speaking at least.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

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

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