How Much Resistance Did China Face as It Begun to Implement Anti-Censorship Technology?

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China is a huge party state, which has incredible amount of money and resources to throw at this. The falangong religious movement was major proponent of anti censorship technology for a long time after the chinese government cracked down on them. You know, since these big insect firms, of chinese insect firms, have come up, they also are pressured by the government to invest a huge amount of money in censoring what people are saying. So you have this public private partnership king against, say, you know, a scattered group of dissidents and activists around the world who have fought a very good and long fight against it. It's one that is very, very difficult for them to ever

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