Er… it is different. The Chinese firewall also includes massive censorship of what can be said internally, and it’s far beyond whether links can be shared and discussed.
What do you mean by “what can be said internally”?
Doesn’t the free market Great Firewall of USA do that? There are lists of topics that, if you express support for them, will get you automatically banned from facebook etc. Social media sites sell information about your activities to data brokers who in turn sell services that help decide what jobs or loans are available to you. Reddit blocking an entire ccTLD is pretty over-the-top but demands for more censorship have been in vogue in the USA since 2016.
Actually not 2016, censorship trend increased when GamerGate happened. Things went off the cliff on the internet ever since, of course accelerated by the specific kind of people Trump in USA and India’s Jio mobile internet democratisation mobilised.
Er… it is different. The Chinese firewall also includes massive censorship of what can be said internally, and it’s far beyond whether links can be shared and discussed.
What do you mean by “what can be said internally”?
Doesn’t the free market Great Firewall of USA do that? There are lists of topics that, if you express support for them, will get you automatically banned from facebook etc. Social media sites sell information about your activities to data brokers who in turn sell services that help decide what jobs or loans are available to you. Reddit blocking an entire ccTLD is pretty over-the-top but demands for more censorship have been in vogue in the USA since 2016.
Actually not 2016, censorship trend increased when GamerGate happened. Things went off the cliff on the internet ever since, of course accelerated by the specific kind of people Trump in USA and India’s Jio mobile internet democratisation mobilised.