• aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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    23 hours ago

    Which of these countries can you not even browse the open internet from, because of tight control over information, thus the population?

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        21 hours ago

        it’s literally not, there’s only one of them where citizens aren’t allowed to use foreign social media

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          5 hours ago

          I meant the answer to both questions is China

          Edit: just reading other comments, it is apparently no true what i assumed.

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      21 hours ago

      the soviet union never had access to the open internet. What existed in the West was ARPANET (1969), which evolved into NSFNET in the mid-1980s the backbone of what would become the internet.

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        21 hours ago

        And which one has a “great firewall” and criminal penalties for browsing Youtube or Reddit?