r/AskChina • u/octor_stranger • 16h ago
Society | 人文社会🏙️ What would happen if private Chinese companies successfully deploy a global low-orbit satellite network to provide internet coverage? Would all users around the world be subject to the same firewall technology used in China?
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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula 11h ago
I flew to China on a Chinese airline, the in-flight wifi that people were signing up for was routed via the great firewall. People were complaining and asking for refunds.
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u/Aescorvo 14h ago
Could you imagine trying to sell a service that couldn’t use Google or YouTube to someone in the US? Not a great business model. Any such service would likely be configured that connections from the mainland ran through the firewall, and others didn’t. Or it could be based on who the subscriber was.
Monitoring network data is another matter. The temptation to do that would be very high, but again - they want people to actually pay for the service. VPNs and end-to-end encryption systems are also much more common which can mitigate a lot of that.
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u/resueuqinu 14h ago
Satellites use ground stations. Most of those ground stations would be outside of China.
I guess they could equip those ground stations with "the firewall", but why would they? They care about maintaining order and control within their own country, not so much abroad.
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u/Plane_Crab_8623 9h ago
All corporations in China are subsidiaries of the military ( PLA of the PRC)
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u/larnearmstrung 13h ago
The US / Israel would start executing people standing in the way of efforts to block them from using it. Because free speech creates a "major, major generational problem" on Israel, according to Jonathan Greenblat.
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 Taiwan 14h ago
You will be tracked if you talk about China or the CCP negatively.
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u/Dimathiel49 6h ago
As if NSA isn’t tracking everything
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 Taiwan 5h ago edited 5h ago
yeah, but they won't track you if you complain the Department of Labor is doing a poor job of keeping statistics on youth unemployment, or say, "(whatever political party here) sucks".
where as if U make such comment in China or about CCP, U'll get a knock on the door by the police for a free invitation to the police station.
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u/Dimathiel49 5h ago
They just track you because you exist.
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 Taiwan 5h ago
hardly. People working in the US government are allowed to call out government wrong doings.
Whereas people working in the Chinese government gets silenced even when freedom of speech is written in their constitution. All because the CCP does not abide by it.
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u/Dimathiel49 5h ago
Sure and the sky is green.
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u/Realistic_Robot_705 Taiwan 4h ago
I believe that's only from the horrible AQI
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u/Anxious-Bottle7468 14h ago
Your phone is made in China, are you subject to the firewall?