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Reminds me of more than a decade ago, when websites were blocked by China’s Internet Great Firewall, website owners would laugh at themselves saying they were officially certified. My blog has experienced this many times before, and I have changed the server IP and domain name because of this; the Mastodon instance that has been running for a long time has been intermittently blocked for a while, and yesterday, finally, it was completely inaccessible. Somehow, I finally felt a sense of peace of mind—if I had not been “certified”, it would make me wonder if I am now blind and numb while living in China?
Every time a similar problem arises, we habitually start self-analysis. For example, when my blog was blocked many years ago, I searched for a long time and found an article in the blog that mentioned a documentary about the gap between rich and poor in China produced by Japan’s NHK. “Probably because of this article,” I thought to myself. This time, the Mastodon instance was blocked and analyzed: Maybe too much “sensitive content” has been said recently? Probably DNS pollution? Probably a list of domain names caught from a relay station? Etc., etc. I suddenly thought of a common rhetoric in the past few years. You may have seen it. Some creators will explain vaguely when they do not release content as scheduled: Because of technical reasons…
But we all know it’s not for some mysterious technical reason, and we don’t have to look for it in ourselves. It is the censorship system of the Chinese government that has created these shady scenes, and we are not obliged to accommodate it and conduct self-censorship; just pretend it does not exist, write and speak freely, always use proxies, and let yourself use the borderless as it should be. the Internet.
fin.
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