• Imnebuddy@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    The Great Firewall serves as a protectionist policy to encourage Chinese citizens to use China’s own platforms to help build China’s technological sovereignty while also filtering out a lot of reactionary crap. The Chinese people use VPNs to access YouTube and such all the time. I recommend watching Ben Norton’s video on his experience living in China as he does talk about the Great Firewall and its purpose.