nah, the firewall helps China
the firewall makes it so that the average Chinese person doesn’t experience the stress and the associated timesink of having to debate with a peabrained white supremacist about literally every single basic fact ever
I honestly think this is the main reason for the firewall. It’s just ignoring the idiots, except the Chinese government goes one step further by preventing you from knowing that the idiots even exist in the first place, so that your time is spent more constructively
If the 100 million CPC members number is accurate, then I don’t think they’d have a hard time just destroying ever self-professed white supremacist (or nationalist or whatever). Not to mention what the billion+ other Chinese will do.
It also helps them develop their own sovereign Internet ecosystem. They have their own search engines, e-mail providers, social networks, video sites, that can develop at their own pace without being trampled by giants from Silicon Valley and being subject to their algorithms like in the rest of the world.
Believing China doesn’t have a capitalist-driven Shenzhen and doesn’t have a robust, sophisticated set of their own algorithms to contain and deliver social media is bewildering to me.
