China steps up online controls with new rule for bloggers

The poor Chinese have allowed themselves to be led by a carrot on a stick towards a dystopian prison for the mind, where you will eventually be afraid to even think certain non-sanctioned thoughts, never mind voice them. Just avoid dangerous/sensitive/complex topics altogether, not just for your own sake but for the sake of your family too. All this done under the enticing banner of social harmony. Orwell wrote about this as a warning, but the CCP seems to have taken it on as a handbook.

Is it even sustainable? Will they eventually realize that these systems are out of whack with human nature itself and that healthy dissent is actually a necessary part of a healthy society? Something has to pop eventually, right?

“The regulators want to control the entire procedure of information production,”

Governments in authoritarian states control information and the media. China a prime example.

China, like Russia and other authoritarian states, hires keyboard warriors that use social media sites in nations with bits of democracy remaining to push anti-democracy, pro-authoritarian messages. While using 'western' social media the keyboard warriors attack the free, for-profit press. And are supported by many 'westerners' also pushing pro-authoritarian, anti-democracy messages. For example US Republicans.

Simple, get a SIM card from the EU, USA or other free countries and keep on blogging.

This system of control will ultimately fail. China attempted population control and it has ended with a very large gender imbalance that will cost China dearly in coming years.

The idea of total control on the internet will also fail. Either the people will find an alternate way to discuss issues of importance or people will become useless sheep unable to think for themselves making them sub class in comparison to those in the party who can discuss anything. It will eventually weaken Chinese society.

These measures are not fully investigated before implementation for consequences down the years as population control was not fully investigated. Even when China knew that the preference was for male children only they did nothing to ensure balance until they ended the one child policy.

This experiment at control will fail where the CCP least expects it and by the time they realize the damage being caused it will already be done.

xi wants to turn China into a N.Korea.

He is so scared of citizens getting influenced by democratic ideas that he will do anything to stop them.

I hope China turns democratic one day, the Chinese just need to look at Taiwan to see what they could have been!!!!

The Chinese narrative, widely believed internally, is that Taiwan is run by a gang of crooks and bandits.

The Chinese narrative, widely believed internally, is that Taiwan is run by a gang of crooks and bandits.

Ironic since it is China that fits that description.

I hope China turns democratic one day, the Chinese just need to look at Taiwan to see what they could have been!!!!

Kinda.

Let's not forget that the Taiwanese people suffered under a dictatorship for many years.

Simple, get a SIM card from the EU, USA or other free countries and keep on blogging.

The Chinese have no way to buy these and even if they had one it would not work. One of the things you discover traveling to China is that for your US or EU phone to work there you have to buy a Chinese SIM card and get an account with a Chinese cellular service. There is no way around this. The only possible way to avoid detection while blogging would be to use a VPN, which is illegal, and post on media sites outside of China. The only Chinese who could read your blog however would be those who also have a VPN and are able to access the same foreign media sites. China forces every internet service provider and every website in China to accept state control of content and to hand over all of their data to the central government upon demand. Assume anything you say on a phone in China is recorded and subject to key word searches looking for discussions of banned material.

VPNs that use TLS 1.2 or lower (any SSL) have been cracked by the CCP-Govt. TLS 1.3 VPNs are blocked in China.

Simple, get a SIM card from the EU, USA or other free countries and keep on blogging.

You don't understand how the technology you're speaking of works. Getting a foreign SIM card wouldn't do anything. I have no idea if foreign SIM cards can connect to Chinese cellular networks, but if they can, they are still going through the Chinese networks. Foreign SIM cards don't reach out and connect to networks outside of China. The SIM card allows for connection to a network, and identifies the phone and the carrier so that the network can bill the user accordingly. Or identify the user accordingly as it were, and block their content/websites if necessary. Which is how the Chinese would use it, if you can even connect to Chinese networks with a foreign SIM card. A foreign SIM card would do nothing for privacy, and would only incur a high phone bill in another country - if foreign SIM cards can even connect to the Chinese network.

On that note, please don't go to China, and post sketchy stuff about China on your phone, thinking that your foreign SIM card will help. It won't. If you go to China, don't post anything about China that isn't positive, until you get out of China.

VPNs that use TLS 1.2 or lower (any SSL) have been cracked by the CCP-Govt. TLS 1.3 VPNs are blocked in China.

Is the protocol disallowed on Chinese hardware somehow? Or have they made it a prosecutable offense if you're caught using one?

I wonder if the people have found other ways to post safely outside the country.

Is the protocol disallowed on Chinese hardware somehow? Or have they made it a prosecutable offense if you're caught using one?

The great firewall blocks TLS 1.3. That's https and vpn traffic. I moved my servers to tls v1.3 to reduce the direct attacks from the mainland. It worked.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/china_blocking_tls_1_3_esni/

China's government cannot take criticism

That's why ya cannot have an honest debate in China

The great firewall blocks TLS 1.3. That's https and vpn traffic. I moved my servers to tls v1.3 to reduce the direct attacks from the mainland. It worked.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/11/china_blocking_tls_1_3_esni/

Very interesting. Scary that they can't use HTTPS or VPNs in China.