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Specialists, so they were just ill equipped to deal with it. i suppose the reason why all this matters, though, when it comes to china, is that, you know, in the past, information found on social media has been really crucial, really key to other civil uprisings. yes. and i think that fact is not lost on the chinese leadership. and president xi himself talked about the dangers of the jasmine revolutions and uprisings that were fueled in part by people's access to easy information. and i think that's why the government has invested so much in creating this great firewall of censorship within ch...

To to to make it work. and in the first few days of the protests, certainly over the weekend, there was a lot that was getting past the censors because people were in this cat and mouse game. people were trying to invent new ways of being sarcastic or newjokes that were kind of not immediately, obviously, about the protests, for example. i saw it. yeah, that one saying things because saying saying repeating phrases like i saw it, you know, or even the phrase yes, yes, yes, over and over again, because of course, saying no would be seen as a negative criticism. so of course, you can just say ye...

According to one government official i spoke to, a contractor, but if you page down a bit, it wasjust it was just all adult content. how willing have the uk, of the us tech companies being to help chinese protesters bypass the censors? it is a very sticky situation. it's extremely sensitive. apple has is coming under increasing pressure for the concessions it's made to the government there. china's enormous market, and of course elon musk's biggest, biggest market outside of the us and rival to the us is china for tesla, which is the major source of his wealth. so he cares a lot about what chi...

What other people are doing in the rest of china? where does the information come from? so a lot of chinese people have access to a piece of software known as a vpn, which is circumvention software that allows you to bypass the chinese firewall and access platforms that are blocked in the country. so, we're talking platforms like facebook, twitter, even youtube, google — all these platforms that you just can't access. instead, in the country, there are chinese equivalents. so instead of google, you've got baidu, instead of facebook, you've got weibo. people are using cryptic messages to talk...

Are the uk, the us tech companies being to help chinese protesters bypass the censors? it is a very sticky situation. it's extremely sensitive. apple is coming under increasing pressure for the concessions it's made to the government there. china's enormous market. and of course, elon musk's biggest, biggest market outside of the us and rival to the us is china for tesla, which is the major source of his wealth. so he cares a lot about what china thinks. whether he cares about the protesters is another question, but he's certainly gutted the staff that would deal with that. it's a very sensiti...