Posted On: Wednesday - December 13th 2023 7:46PM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites China iEspionage
That's what I get for depending on my memory after over 4 months. I'd wanted to do a comparison of website access in China in '23 vs the situation in '17, as covered here.
No, I didn't take notes, and I apologize for that. I'll just note the few things I do remember, which includes one important point. You can see that yahoo has been banned in China for a couple of years now. Yahoo news is nothing but Regime Narrative distribution, but I will say they took a stand when it comes to Chinese heavy-handedness and its Orwellian urge to control information.
Per this article from the time on a Chinese site, no it's not that, it's a...
... move that experts say is driven by its own business failure and has nothing to do with China's business and legal environment.But,
In a statement emailed to the Global Times, the company citied [sic] "the increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China" as its reason for exit. Yahoo's exit also prompted criticisms in some foreign media outlets about China's business and legal environment for foreign firms.Then again,
However, such assertions are refuted by Chinese internet and legal experts, who attributed the US company's failure to its poor competitiveness in the Chinese market.Sure, I'll believe a Chinese expert on internet freedom when I get done aptly listening to Anthony Fauci teach me about contagious disease.
Anyway, youtube was still off the air there, with nothing but black frames of whatever size the webmaster made them. I really, really wish I'd tried, or remembered what the deal was with bitchute or rumble.
I was able to read and comment on The Unz Review with no problem other than the same sporadic blockage that I see in America. Peak Stupidity was up too. With all that I write about China, you'd think some cadre over there in Peking would have found us. (Maybe it's because I write "Peking", and that evades their searches.)
Here's the big point: The Chinese can't seem to block anything downloaded on smart phones. Yet that's what many people (not me, because it's exasperating!) use as their primary means of getting on-line, from what I see, most ESPECIALLY in China. As most besides the high-status Government types pretty much missed the whole Alexander Graham Bell landline era, I doubt many Chinamen had much in the way of desktop computers for very long before the time of the Apple iCrap.
The Chinese Government controls The Peoples' iEspionage devices in many ways, the most basic being the registration of the SIM cards. A National ID card - no simple piece of laminated card stock anymore - is needed to get a SIM card, and the number of them one may get is limited. We needed to borrow a phone belonging to a Chinese woman for some apps. I didn't want to get her in trouble looking at this or that, so I can't be sure it could also get any website I could on mine. I could see there possibly being a difference, even though we were, of course, using Chinese networks. Does my carrier have a deal with them in which the data is downloaded outside China on our normal network here, then sent along?
I don't know enough about it, so I'll stop here. Is there some fundamental computer-technological reason the Chinese Gov't can't block websites on phones?* It'd be cool if there were.
* Yahoo is a different story, as it was yahoo's call to NOT be accessible from China.
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