Very interesting to me that some users just go around and change all mentions of Taiwan and Hong Kong to China, as @alexobviously mentioned in the pull thread. I wonder if the people that do these things do so out of personal patriotism or some other force/factor.
The particular account in question [1] does enough unrelated stuff to make me believe it's just a patriot who genuinely believes those countries belong to China. Sounds strange until you remember that some people like to start confrontations online for the dumbest reasons.
Reminds me of Tom Scott's video on timezones [1], where he shows how what time zone a user is in can depend on things like ethnicity: apparently, when the West Bank goes on and off Daylight Savings depends on whether you're among Israelis or not (I might have the details wrong here, please correct me if so. I couldn't find much definitive information about this).
Luckily the problem OP linked to seems easier to solve.
This is often due to legal requirements: in both India and China (and many other countries), it's literally illegal to display a map of the country that does not show the "right" borders.
I was at a fancy hotel in Guangzhou that had internet through HK for some reason. It was nice not being behind the GFW during my stay there. I’m sure there is a better way to tell if you are behind the wall or not.
Prosperity is the most powerful propaganda of all.
I think few (non-Chinese) people in the US/Europe really understand the dramatic changes that have happened in the last few decades. I have Chinese family members that grew up under literally starvation conditions, only to grow up to find themselves multimillionaires. When Deng Xiaoping went to Shenzen it was a basically a small fishing village, and he said he would make it prosperous and change China's future. It happened. China went from developing nation to second largest economic power in the world in a life time.
For context I am not Chinese and not a fan of the CCP, but the zealous patriotism of the Chinese is not radically different than the zealous patriotism of American's in the immediate postwar period.
When discussing propaganda with Chinese citizens, it's vital to recognize this first. They aren't brainwashed masses, they are largely people who were told outrageous promises by their government, and in fact government policy really made those things happen.
Very different from the west where leaders make mediocre promises of marginal improvements, then fail to deliver on those promises and then they create new significant problems which we didn't have before.
Chinese were much less patriotic in general 10-20 years ago. They would actually point and laugh at Americans saying they were smarter than that. Times changed a lot since Xi took office. Many are still cynically going through the motions (like when you have to take mandatory ideology classes in high school and college, lots of kids just used to use them for sleep but now they pretend to pay attention).
You became a millionaire. But I, who had always ranked in the top ten in a small town of more than 100+k people before college, still did not own a house after working for 10+ years.
The title is an unnecessary editorial of the PR title. Also, this highlights the importance of naming in software. Because, by any account and interpretation, Hong Kong is in China. But that is apparently not what this function is doing, yet it is named "isInChina". It should have been named something else, such as "shouldSetGoProxy", which would resolve any ambiguity.
It's the original PR title. Hong Kong is not "physically" "in" "China" in the same sense as a computer which is physically, or legally, in China, and therefore subject to Great Firewall rules.
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[1] https://github.com/92hackers
Luckily the problem OP linked to seems easier to solve.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Hong Kong does not have the (same) GFW, it is rightly to remove Hong Kong from that list.
That being said, use the locale to determine network connectivity is just.. wrong.
they pay right? Not just in social credit points I hope
I think few (non-Chinese) people in the US/Europe really understand the dramatic changes that have happened in the last few decades. I have Chinese family members that grew up under literally starvation conditions, only to grow up to find themselves multimillionaires. When Deng Xiaoping went to Shenzen it was a basically a small fishing village, and he said he would make it prosperous and change China's future. It happened. China went from developing nation to second largest economic power in the world in a life time.
For context I am not Chinese and not a fan of the CCP, but the zealous patriotism of the Chinese is not radically different than the zealous patriotism of American's in the immediate postwar period.
When discussing propaganda with Chinese citizens, it's vital to recognize this first. They aren't brainwashed masses, they are largely people who were told outrageous promises by their government, and in fact government policy really made those things happen.
The CCP was literally why they were starving in the first place
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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