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ipalileoon We need a Manhattan project to penetrate China's firewall

> The friction of using VPN is not much higher than getting an internet connection in the first place: some initial setup and then keep paying for your subscription

fees are the most expensive friction point on the internet

> That's assuming those services are obviously better, so that people will switch. Otherwise, everyone will keep using what they're familiar with.

agreed and sadly we'll never know because the CCP is censoring the ability to compete.

ipalileoon We need a Manhattan project to penetrate China's firewall

the friction of using vpn is too high and the challenge is coming up with a solution that has a lower barrier to entry.

if youtube, google, twitter, facebook etc. can directly access the chinese market, their local counterparts will not survive and that's a massive opportunity.

ipalileoon We need a Manhattan project to penetrate China's firewall

for the challenge and for the opportunity - i disagree that all of china wants to remain censored and i think there's enough creators and hackers in the world interested to direct access to the chinese market.