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Comment by pleasecalllater | Hacker News Reader

I'm wondering if people in China can see this website in Google.

Edit: to people who are downvoting this... check this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19540562

That thread is about Google Ads. If Chinese people can see Google Search, they're using a VPN and can see that website. Without VPN, on the other hand, it has been blocked by the Great Firewall since at least 2015: https://en.greatfire.org/https/www.hongkongfp.com

People in China can't see Google. People here have it so backwards about which companies are most cooperative with China

Yes it's quite bizarre that HN is so anti-Google in this issue. Only tech companies that cooperate with China exist in China. Google tried to stand their ground for years and was completely banned.

Google being completely banned in China doesn't do anyone any good. A censored Google is better than no Google.

Why the down-vote? Isn't the absence of Google a more totalitarian form of censorship than some access to Google?

Not anymore!

People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting.

>People aren't downvoting this within 7 minutes of you posting.

Obviously they are, or OP wouldn't have added that edit. You can see your comment scores (as you know.)

Interestingly, I just read that China employs people to influence social media. (Which Hacker News would fall under, I guess.) What I read was this, I'll quote it in full:

   >China does this with its 50
   >Cent Party: people hired by the government to
   >post comments on social networking sites
   >supporting, and to challenge comments
   >opposing, party positions.

This is from a book on privacy by a famous author. It would be interesting to know if the people mentioned post to HN.

Please don't break the site guideline which asks you not to insinuate astroturfing on HN. See my recent explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538691.

Plenty more at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

my apologies. thank you for the informative link.

The recent story about Apple disabling their News app in China got flagged over and over in the first hour or so, but I don't know if that was wumao or Apple fans doing it for free :)

Well, it got downvoted in the first 2 minutes.

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