I looked at CNN today for a second and what do you know, they are gushing about how wonderful this little traitor is.
I looked at CNN today for a second and what do you know, they are gushing about how wonderful this little traitor is.
It's one Big World now
Might as well give China full access. What could go wrong?
lost in melb. (02-12-2022)
Fair enough. On this occasion it was a bit ambiguous
We have a weekly poker game over Zoom with friends from around the province who can't get together. We always pause for a poll break and everyone submits questions. Our polls are usually really juvenile My question last night was pro or anti Gu. It came out 7/9 anti and 2/9 pro. The two pro guys were basically of the opinion "I don't give a shit, go do whatever makes you the most money, nationalism is stupid anyways."
I personally think if it was a Canadian going to represent Ireland or whatever, it wouldn't even make the news (it happens often with guys who can't make the Canadian hockey team but want to play in the Games and I'm fine with that).
... but China? How do you defend going to represent a tyrannical regime committing genocide against religious groups, poisoning the earth, and doing it all for money from what I can tell. She grew up in a neighborhood with average home prices of $5m and went to a $55k/year private school so it's hard to even understand why she would sell out. Wonder how much they actually paid her...
Muddy (02-12-2022), Teh One Who Knocks (02-12-2022)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-a...-social-media/Eileen Gu's VPN comment reportedly censored on Chinese social media
The American-born Olympic skier reportedly recommended people use VPNs in China, where they're illegal.
Olympic skier Eileen Gu made it sound like using Instagram is easy in China when she replied to a commenter on the social media service, according to a screenshot noted by Protocol on Thursday. Now her description of how to bypass China's firewall to use Instagram has reportedly been censored.
The exchange started when a commenter asked Gu, who won a gold medal in big air freestyle skiing, how she could use the Instagram photo-sharing service, which is blocked in China.
"Anyone can download a VPN its literally free on the App store," Gu replied, according to the screenshot. CNET couldn't verify the comment.
China's government has banned the use of VPNs, or virtual private networks, for individuals. The services hide internet traffic from internet service providers, often letting users bypass firewalls. According to Protocol, Gu's remarks about the VPN were removed from a screenshot shared on Weibo, a popular Chinese social media service.
Gu didn't immediately respond to a request for comment sent on Instagram. Neither Instagram nor Weibo responded to requests for comment.
In addition to blocking services such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, the Chinese government requires cooperation from domestic tech companies in keeping specific content from appearing in social media feeds. As a result, companies filter out images and videos, altering what regular people see. Research conducted in 2019 of WeChat, another social media site in China, revealed that photos of the infamous "Tank Man" incident in Tiananmen Square and posts about the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou were blocked.
According to Protocol, people expressed outrage on Weibo in response to Gu's suggestion to use a VPN. One person was quoted as saying, "Literally, I'm not 'anyone.' Literally, it's illegal for me to use a VPN. Literally, it's not fxxking free at all."
Ya this is going swimmingly
DemonGeminiX (02-12-2022), RBP (02-12-2022)
she really has no idea what she has gotten herself into
lost in melb. (02-13-2022)
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZ...VJrwrn5XvzrzcA
That's the NBC sports channel
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Can't see it in my region either. Got time to give us 2nd world country fellas the TL-DR?
RBP (02-13-2022)
I've tried various vpns in different countries and they are sniffing me out
RBP (02-13-2022)