[alephnerd]

> those. A lot of things blocked afterwards, we slowly lost more services that we had previously

Until a couple years ago, it was fairly common to smuggle VEOM, Airtel, and Ooredoo sims in much of Xinjiang and Tibet, because the Uyghur and Tibetan diaspora largely uses WhatsApp to communicate as the Uyghur diaspora is largely in the CIS, Turkey, and Pakistan and the Tibetan diaspora in India, Nepal, and the US.

> OMG did he mess that one up. We had to use the guest wifi in my office so he could make offline copies. If you aren't used to it, and don't follow China closely, you could be very technical and still be caught off guard

Oh boy! That sounds rough, but also makes sense.