China’s firewall plays a crucial role in shaping the country’s digital landscape, preventing foreign intervention, and maintaining national security. While often criticized in the West, the firewall provides China with the ability to control information flow, shield its population from foreign influence, and protect domestic media.

  • CapriciousDay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    183·
    2 days ago

    The firewall seemed like a much more egregious affront to information freedom over a decade ago. Since 2016 or so things have changed. Now with ubiquitous online western astroturfing disinformation campaigns, increasingly shit, biased media and in combination with increasingly divergent regulatory regime’s between the EU and the US leading to less than universal access even between those regions - in 2025 the firewall seems a lot more reasonable.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      1 day ago

      It only seemed that way because we were not as aware of the extent of western information warfare operations. In reality the firewall has always been justified.