「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)

We need a “Fedi-Search engine”

LIVE FREE ON THE FEDI- HIGH SEAS!

YARRR! 🏴‍☠️

the vast majority of people don’t go around it

That’s because there’s also a language barrier thing.

Exhibit A: My parents (born in China) are here in US and they just be using wechat all the time even without the firewall.

China doesn’t even really allow VPNs at all, yet some people can still go over the firewall.

If it’s just “age restriction”, I’m sure there will suddenly be a lot of grandpa/grandmas buying VPNs¹

¹When China tried to restrict online video games, kids just used their grandparents IDs for verification lmfao

Doesn’t matter. Chinese people found a way around the firewall, pretty sure there are nerds in UK that will find a way.

Related:

The Chinese internet is so weird…

I tried to go on Baidu Maps on my phone browser so I could look up the neighborhood I used to live in, and the site tried to auto-download the .apk file like 10 times in a row… wtf?

Also like I tried to browse the shopping sites out of curiosity and you can’t even browse the site without needing to sign in, which requires a phone number…

Hey I heard that theres a Very Pretty Neat trick for Brits to “travel abroad” effortlessly

Being happy means adjusting your wants to what you have.

Oh I guess I should be happy that ICE only raided my neighbors and not me. Amirite?

How an authoritarian government can counter this:

Step 1: Make it illegal to use such devices without a license.
Step 2: Refuse to issue radio licenses except to maybe law enforcement and high ranking governmwnt officials
Step 3: Triangulate “unauthorized users”
Step 4: Mass arrests