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So, isn't the real question how to get you into a more liberal country so you can continue your work?

That's true. But immigration for Chinese is much more harder than you think. Even in China, it is not completely free to move from one province to another.

In this case, it seems like there's a reasonable argument for asylum.

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as a sidenote I encourage all people with talent to leave countries with suppressive regimes. I think they should be erased from their position. One way to do that is to encourage everyone to leave their country. One can argue that staying in a bad country may one day help to build it up again, but on the other hand, nothing hurts bad people in power more than complete brain drain.

China is ~20% of the world's population (1.36 billion of 7 billion). If everyone in China left China, and assuming the rest of the world is living as a family of four (play along), then every home in the world outside of China would have to take in one Chinese refugee. "Leave" is not a viable strategy at scale.

You don't need everyone to leave, just a relentlessly growing percentage. At some point the system starts to crack, and either they relent or it breaks.

In the USA, there is the fundamental notion of "consent of the governed" - if enough people won't submit, the government cannot function.

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Your Iran point: How many civilians have Israel taken out in the recent past? America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin? How many civilians have ISIS taken out? I guess if you are from the country, it's less likely that you would outraged by your own military's actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_mili... Thanks for the information regarding Chin…

What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous conflict that has nothing to do with this. Your argument is ISIS equipment being American. What? That's because equipment given to Iraqis being captured, a very well documented problem. Your implication is the most ridiculous thing I have rea…

Creating a power vacuum with a load of weapon caches left behind and hastily trained folk guarding them, does have a pretty predictable outcome.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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Leave to where? To a country where 1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians. 2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment. 3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished. 4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a…

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the second amendment and of cause and effect.

When govts have nuclear weapons, nothing wrong people having assault weapons. Second amendment should be universal.

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sadly with RDP you cannot have same experience.it is not about 1 or 2 site , for example for me , my vpn connection is always on because there is not internet without it.but with RDP loging into another machine , with all lag you see , is almost impossible at least for power user like me which most of the time have 50+ tab open in chrome in site's like youtube , android dev doc's, etc.

You can RDP into a machine and use the browser there.

But you have to send a packet every time the remote screen changes. It is much more demanding on network resources than a VPN and thus will be more difficult to use on a daily basis.

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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And their rate of actual shootings and deaths by firearm is much smaller, which is the actual relevant number

Only because they don't have huge ghettos with gang problems. It's basically a demographics issue.

Oh I hear Jane/Finch and Scarborough are veritable paradises these days

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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At Lantern (https://www.getlantern.org) we make censorship circumvention software that shares some similarities with Shadowsocks but that also uses p2p. Since the @clowwindy announcement we're the #3 trending repository on GitHub basically because a ton of Chinese coders have been starring it - https://github.com/trending

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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No, to the country that is: 1) A leader in freedom of speech, press freedom, property rights protections, general freedom of movement, and is low on the corruption index. One of the few countries with extraordinarily well protected freedom of speech rights enshrined at the core of the nation. 2) Has a rapidly adaptive culture, able to implement changes at a fast pace despite its immense scale. That includes things li…

You are missing a few sources. 14 to be exact.

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All of these statements are easily checked out by googling. Listing sources is a pointless formality.

(not stating that I think they're all accurate, but I do agree with the overall point, and I am very equipped to investigate and adjust the details.)

Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

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What? "America plays the proxy war game too. How much of ISIS armament is of American origin?". America's proxy war involvement is well known, but you picked the most ridiculous conflict that has nothing to do with this. Your argument is ISIS equipment being American. What? That's because equipment given to Iraqis being captured, a very well documented problem. Your implication is the most ridiculous thing I have rea…

Creating a power vacuum with a load of weapon caches left behind and hastily trained folk guarding them, does have a pretty predictable outcome.

This is a slipper slope if I've ever seen one. Aid to Syrian rebels is already known, one of the parties to which a proxy war might be a somewhat reasonable assumption. However, given the long involvement of the US in Iraq, this is a very far-fetched conspiracy theory to say the least.

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This is the end of a century. People in China had used 4 kinds of tools to skip the GFW: freegate, openvpn, goagnet, shadowsocks. freegate is a traditional http proxy or socks proxy built by Falun Gong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong ). They built lots of software with the same technology: freegate gpass freeu dynapass... People share this kind of banned software sending to each others just like teenagers…

Everyone can just use Lantern (https://www.getlantern.org). They already are, but in greater numbers since the Shadowsocks announcement (https://github.com/trending).
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