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Great firewall is one of the worst aspects of China, why do that here?

Banning the sale of a single app controlled by an adversary is building a "Great Firewall" in your book? (Note that it is not even a ban on the app at the ISP level.) There are legit arguments against the policy but this ain't one.

Great Frewall wasn't built in one day

Please explain its first day then if you want to make that case.

> explain its first day

In the beginning The Elders of the Internet created the Server and Terminals, and pipes that interconnects them

And the online community was without form, and void; and illegal/cp/terror/financing/harmful darkness was upon the face of the deep

And the Spirit of State censorship moved upon the face of the waters

And the State said, Let there be right: and there were rights and wrongs

And the State enforced the right, and it was good; and the State divided the right from the wrong contents.

Using CCP app is not a right.

Correct, it's been placed in the wrongs.

Correct.

Nice diversion from the history of Great Firewall and very specific question about what happened on its first day—what was banned specifically, and what the stated basis for the ban was.

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