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Isn't twitter banned in china? I think it would be fair that since chinese "peasants" can't use it then the chinese "elite", companies, and government should not be able to either. I for one would support twitter banning them, let them taste their own medicine.


Sure, but then ban their account and all ips. Not just tweets that you don't think line up with US version of the truth.


Twitter isn't "banned" in China in the way Westerners conventionally understand the term. Twitter IPs are blocked as a matter of policy by the GFW. Various institutions inside of China have the IP exception rules like universities and government offices. If you have an officially sanctioned reason to use Twitter like buying ads on there for Western export products, you can apply for an official VPN that gives you legal access to Twitter. Twitter has a sales office in Beijing that helps with stuff like this.

Selling unsanctioned VPN services is a crime in China but using an unsanctioned VPN is in a legal gray area but largely tolerated so long as you don't draw attention to yourself. Twitter itself has estimated that it had 10M MAU inside of China as of 2016.


You just confirmed that Twitter is in fact banned in China in the way that I understand the term.


This was a useful comment, assuming it is true, and even though it is a "debate on definitions" quibble.




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