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China's firewall plays a crucial role in shaping the country’s digital landscape, preventing foreign intervention, and maintaining national security. While often criticized in the West, the firewall provides China with the ability to control information flow, shield its population from foreign influence, and protect domestic media.

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[–] shath@hexbear.net 63 points 3 days ago

correct - if they didn't do this they would've left themselves open to western tech companies basically monopolizing digital infrastructure with little recourse for chinese tech firms to stand on their own feet.

much less the fact that the western tech firms are 24 government agencies wearing a layer of VC money