Anne Applebaum
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USAID, for example, the American aid agency that's being dismantled this week was one of them. So maybe we're not going to continue fighting it. But yeah, we have been fighting it for a long time. And I think we should have been doing it more.
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Yeah. So what the Chinese have is a system of monitoring the Internet. People talk about the Great Firewall of China like it's a thing, but it's actually many different things. It's listening on social media forums. It's control of social media forums. The banning of particular words. So the word Tiananmen is banned. And the Chinese have ways around it.
Yeah. So what the Chinese have is a system of monitoring the Internet. People talk about the Great Firewall of China like it's a thing, but it's actually many different things. It's listening on social media forums. It's control of social media forums. The banning of particular words. So the word Tiananmen is banned. And the Chinese have ways around it.
Yeah. So what the Chinese have is a system of monitoring the Internet. People talk about the Great Firewall of China like it's a thing, but it's actually many different things. It's listening on social media forums. It's control of social media forums. The banning of particular words. So the word Tiananmen is banned. And the Chinese have ways around it.
I mean, they look for substitute words that everybody knows means Tiananmen, Tiananmen being, of course, the name of the protest in 1989 that was eventually shot down. There's even a funny story about people started, instead of referring to Xi Jinping, the leader of China, directly, somebody decided that he looked like Winnie the Pooh. And so they would talk about Winnie the Pooh.