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China did not shrug and forced the development of local equivalents like a little more than a decade ago.

And theyre now still painted as the bad guy for "censoring".



Censoring and forcing local equivalents is a false equivalence.

The censoring makes the western internet quite hard to use without vpns (or last time I was there, Google Fi seemed to not have to go through the firewall and routed the traffic through Europe somehow?)




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