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Comment by tomkat0789 | Hacker News Reader

Isn't the whole Wikipedia domain already blocked in China? I thought Baidu already had a Wikipedia equivalent.

It is. Twitter is as well.

Yet it’s still flooded with people posting in simplified Chinese about how freedom of speech is stupid and foreigners need to shut up and leave matters alone, completely unaware of any irony.

Twitter is as well.

We can imagine the following dialogue:

Chinese patriot: I’m really angry about what the NBA said on Twitter about China!

Chinese secret police: We admire your patriotism Comrade... but how are you using Twitter?

Tien An Men Square: In this site, in 1989, nothing happened.

Taken from the Simpsons: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q_Kixfvq1lY/SiU_RKPsCdI/AAAAAAAAA...

Maybe this is because the Great Firewall doesn't apply in China's special administrative regions (Hong Kong; Macau), yet there are many Chinese speakers there. I'd expect this is the main audience for Chinese-language Wikipedia articles, and the PRC would want to control the narrative seen by them.

>Maybe this is because the Great Firewall doesn't apply in China's special administrative regions (Hong Kong; Macau),

GP mentioned they were in simplified Chinese. Don't those regions use traditional Chinese?

Yes. And they also speak Cantonese.

I'd assume that the Great Firewall has different settings for ordinary citizens, foreign visitors, purpose-built troll farms, low-ranking party members, and high-ranking apparatchiks. China has basically used Orwell as an instruction manual.

There are tons of Chinese students studying in other countries. They are organized by Chinese consulate to "flex their muscle" against anything "anti-china".

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3025721/ch...

[2] https://www.apnews.com/7b0f328f266f46c1a498a16a5ad03fbc

well , they still could use vpn or access it from overseas

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