Wikipedia Is Now Banned in China in All Languages

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borak98 on May 15th, 2019 at 10:03 UTC »

Hah, amateurs. We got it banned for years! (Turkey)

allwordsaremadeup on May 15th, 2019 at 06:09 UTC »

We should try to get github and stackexchange banned. The Chinese IT sector would collapse overnight.

Maybe use shit going wrong in China as a metaphor for everything in code commentary and thread replies and Readme's...

"Just as the Chinese State locks up and kills thousands of people a year to harvest their organs for money, we will now remove and kill thes processes but keep their constituent parts"

"Just like the Chinese Communist Party responded to millions of citizens peacefully protesting on Tienanmen Square by killing up to 3000 of them and burying all reference to it, we will now take a random sampling of this dataset, remove the samples without a need for reference. Till the program collapses because a lack of accountability is a game-breaking bug. "

"Just like Taiwan is a de facto independent country with Chinese futile international efforts to deny reality holding it back, this former subprocess needs to be seperated from the main process to run efficiently."

Etc. I'm sure far more poignant and salty ones are possible.

some comments are saying that this would only hurt normal people, but that bs because they should't have voted for their stupid autocratic leaders so it's their own fault. ow wait they can't vote. well they should rise up.. ow they get killed for that.. so there's no fix really.. unless.. we somehow help convince the Chinese rulers, who seems like practical people at times, that constructively addressing issues is the only option in a world where information is unstoppable and all attempts to bury shit are doomed to fail.

Vordeo on May 15th, 2019 at 06:01 UTC »

I was there last month. Not gonna lie, was kind of surprised that Wikipedia wasn't banned in the first place.