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by djkoolaide 24 days ago
What's a Chinese firewall?
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reenorap 24 days ago
oops I meant Chinese Wall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall

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singleshot_ 24 days ago
They’re called ethical walls now, for obvious reasons (although the room is still Chinese, for whatever distinction).
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qotgalaxy 24 days ago
No they aren't.
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JumpCrisscross 24 days ago
> What's a Chinese firewall?

"The Great Firewall (GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically" [1].

(I don't think they mean a Chinese wall [2].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Alternative_terms

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