Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How America is pushing China out of the internet" video.

  1. It's sad to hear how so many Chinese nationals liken the PRC government to their "parents", defending the Party from outsiders even when they themselves hold the same criticisms. They haven't yet realized that parents can also be a toxic influence, and it could be healthier to estrange yourself from such a "family".
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  2. No, radios of any sort are far less efficient to move information compared to dedicated physical pipes. They're best used as a stopgap until local cell service (itself uplinked by highly focused microwaves if not terrestrial fiber) and ultimately hardwiring makes it to those inland demand points.
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  3. Beidou is Chinese GPS, supposedly a bit more accurate (mostly important for drones) and features limited two-way messaging capabilities. Baidu is Chinese Google. It's actually not that good outside of Mainland websites, so a lot of Chinese will use their VPNs just to use real Google for whatever they're searching for.
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  4. They are encrypted, but they can still be collected and cracked later.
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  5. Depends, whose courts are you best able to defend yourself in?
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  6. The Paradox of Tolerance means tolerant societies ironically must not tolerate the intolerant (such as the censored and thought-prescribing PRC), because otherwise intolerant ideas spread like a psychological cancer.
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  7. Fractured control (like so-called"multipolarity") leads to conflict as each side tries to expand their influence space into each other. It's much like how life in a state with an effective military and police force is much more stable and predictable than one run by local gangs -- the state's monopoly on violence allows the residents to focus on more productive things within legal boundaries (which is why democracy is important because the people ultimately get to also decide those boundaries).
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