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Board Politics & Society
Re: About Internet circumvention and censorship
by
myrkul
on 31/08/2012, 09:26:16 UTC
Not solved, because you are just promoting it to a wrong target group:99.99% of Chinese bitcoin users with good English ability know Internet circumvention. The potential harm outweighs the benefit.

OK, and would you say that's a large portion of current Chinese (中國) Bitcoin users, or a small percentage?

I don't know, and that is irrelevant to our discussion. If you post in English, your target population is restricted to those who read English. In China, only well-educated people use English and they should know every method to fight with the wall.

Excellent point.

So we have a bit of an impasse, here. On one hand, we know it's inevitable that eventually, this site will no longer be available to the general public in China. On the other, we would like to set that date as far as possible. I have never been to China myself, but I understand from people who have that it is trivial, and the knowledge of how is widespread, to bypass the wall. Certainly, you say, at least as widespread as that of the English language.

I must confess ignorance of exactly what the tool does. I assume it is something to make the use of Bitcoin through the wall a bit easier?

Would it not be best, then, to post the actual thread in the Products section, in English, and then link to it using something like this, in one's signature: Bitcoiner在中国呢?阅读本! (apologies if my translation is poor, I verified it by sending it back through the other way, but Google Translate is not perfect)