Tibet is clear-cut annexation of a sovereign country. HK / New Territories was only leased, and it wasn't going to be practical to keep it longer. The problem is that Beijing no longer needed HK as a gateway, the US/EU had already embraced going directly to the mainland to do deals by the early 2000s. The HK I knew was already gone by 2014.
If you're using tailscale it's a true VPN, not a proxy, and it won't have any impact on you. If you're using the Mullvad add-on that's a different situation.
Imagine if Bitcoin had an incentive to spend instead of hodl. For example, if mining new coins also invalidated some existing coins. This could also provide an infinite supply of coins and a steady mining rate.
Surely this is a First Amendment case? A Senator of the President's party complains, and the Government-funded university leaps to punish the wrong speech, which hasn't been shown in court to contravene any law.
It is really crazy how authoritarian the US has become, and so quickly.
The university did not take this action directly in response to the issue, it took it in response to a call from a US senator regarding a law restricting freedom of speech. Such calls do not have a “no thanks” option. This is the normal way power is exerted, actually executing a punishment is the exception.
Your definition of freedom of speech is wrong per both US and international law. It is a freedom, the issue is the restriction of it, not just any punishment unjustly inflicted.
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I spent a couple years in Europe and found that most local news websites in the US blocked access entirely. My guess was that they all share IT resources / policies of the conglomerate news corp, who decided it would be cheaper to simply ignore traffic from GDRP countries.
I have the same experience. I assumed it was a mix of (as you say) not wanting to deal with EU rules, but also not wanting to deal with licensing concerns (eg "do I have the right to show this media in this country").
Part of why I assumed the latter is that sports, in particular, had a high occurrence of "this content isn't available where you are" blocks.
Its the classic problem that code firefighters get all the attention, but they were also soaking the structure down with gasoline before hand.
Meanwhile the people who took the extra effort to tackle particularly painful parallel systems remove some race conditions early in the design process and are seen to achieve nothing.
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