which is the exact same reason China bans Starlink.

SXX 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Chinas level of internet filtration and censorship nowhere near Iran or Russia. You just buy tourist eSIM and you're golden in China and literally everyone who wants do it.

Chinese government don't care about small percent of population accessing open internet.

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dzhiurgis an hour ago | parent [-]

FWIW NordVPN doesn't have Iran, Russia or China as their exit node.

	▲	SXX 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Because neither is privacy friendly and open country. It's just amount of money and effort Russia puts into blocking VPNs, proxies and encrypted communication is well beyond China. If you travel to China bypassing all the censorship is super straightforward. In Russia whatever worked month ago will likely not work now. By this time all the wireless mobile internet in Russia is mostly whitelist-only when it works at all. And they start to test whitelists on broadband internet now. And Iran is likely shut off internet for good until reginme collapses.

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markdown 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder why BYD is banned in the US. Are we afraid they'll be used to transport people to gatherings?

	▲	SXX 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not from US, but China is certainly subsidize a lot of its manufacturers to capture global markets while not giving access to it's local market to western companies. US is able to produce cars on its soil and there is no reason to give up this industry to foreign country. It's pretty sane policy.