Fear and loathing

This is a great site – https://en.greatfire.org/

It’s a list of all the dates when a website is blocked by the great firewall of China.

You just type in the website of interest and the list pops up.

For example Google Drive has been blocked 100% of the time for the last 90 days.

The motivation for the Chinese government is three-fold:

1. To ensure their citizens don’t have unfettered access to certain information that may threaten the government’s position
2. To give Chinese web companies a chance against the foreign (American) raiders
3. To keep on top of the firewall technology so they can shut the whole thing down if they ever need to, in an emergency

India oughta join up with China and create a market as big as the rest of the world behind that firewall.

You can imagine a future where the Earth is divided into two warring IT communities. One side that opens the boiled egg from the big end and one that opens the egg from the little end.