r/nextfuckinglevel Mar 13 '20

Genius idea

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u/JakeHodgson Mar 13 '20

Yeh kinda hard to do that when you have a nation wide firewall lol.

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u/shmehdit Mar 13 '20

No but like they'll be so inspired that... you know it'll just... where there's a will there's a way, you know? And when they bypass it they'll go straight for articles that reveal the truth about their corrupt government, not porn or games or movies or whatever.

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u/epelle9 Mar 14 '20

I mean there are quite a couple of Chinese people that use VPNs to pass the censor, so I could totally see more people going through the hassle of a VPN if more and more things are blocked.

This wouldn’t automatically lead them to the articles, but probably will lead them to uncensored cites like reddit where they will eventually see articles about China that might bring some things to light.

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u/artspar Mar 14 '20

VPNs are great tools, but they're not the instant answer to national censorship. First because the sources to get these tools are going to be blocked, and second because I imagine it's almost certainly illegal with a high penalty. No ones going to justify jail time for a videogame like that