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Blocking the greatest encyclopedia that ever existed is the best example of what this kind of censorship is .
A favorite quote of mine “The best way to build an authoritarian regime is not to indoctrinate someone but to convince them that there is no such things as truth”
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More probably for the impending 30th anniversary of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Were there protests in previous notable anniversaries?
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Yes, but another way to look at it, does China's micromanagement of the domestic flow of information result in more or less prosperity for their people? To misquote Hayek: communism is ultimately like telling every car where they should go rather than just putting up street-signs. * Please add to the debate rather than down-voting. Also Hayek wasn't musing about future autonomous cars, its a metaphor about how decidi…
> communism is ultimately like telling every car where they should go rather than just putting up street-signs. Ironically, in the capitalist future, each car will decide where to go through a computer system controlled by a single company instead.
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> communism is ultimately like telling every car where they should go rather than just putting up street-signs. Ironically, in the capitalist future, each car will decide where to go through a computer system controlled by a single company instead.
Central control is efficient, if you can get the right signals to the controller, and do it fast enough to have a tight feedback loop. Humans alone can do none of this at scale, but modern computing can do the "feedback" part easily. It's now the "signals" and "controller" parts that need to be figured out.
Sigh and this is why plain text SNI is was not a good idea...
I was wondering what happens if you skip the SNI bit and just rely on the Host header in the data. Does that work?
Blocking the greatest encyclopedia that ever existed is the best example of what this kind of censorship is .
Since Wikipedia can be dumped onto a memory card I am not sure how effective the ban is supposed to be. It will constrain its spread but it is very hard to block all means of transmission of information.
Does wikipedia have any read only mirrors?
There's an IPFS mirror of English Wikipedia[0], as well as several others[1], though not the Chinese one[2]. It's currently not a particularly up-to-date mirror, though (from late 2016). [0] https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1m... [1] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/blob/ma... [2] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror/issues/...
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In my experience zh.wikipedia.org is largely authored by Taiwanese residents. The quality is high but local narratives are often written with some bias not entirely unlike what one would expect from a displaced population resulting from a fairly recent civil war.
The English version of Wikipedia is not free of bias either. Wikipedia is not a source of truth for everything out there.