Okay, you are possibly right here. After digging into China’s law, they do include laws that allows investigations into companies that is monopoly overseas as long as the company has business in China.

But my end point still stands; this is still a very specific time to start the investigation, Android dominance is definitely a part of cause, but in the end it is just a part of political drama between two asshole governments that end up not benefiting both county’s people

It’s Web Directory. The search engine part is Search Plus, Baidu, Sogou and Bing, where the default search plus is just Baidu again.

Google sure is a cancer, but you are not putting it in the context. They literally only provide two major services in Mainland China:

1. ads, which basically allow Chinese business to put ads on Google Ads and Google AdMob
2. developer services like GoLang and Tensorflow, but their main business in China right now is Android licensing for Chinese Mobilephone brands for their international versions.

So,

1. For ads, Google AdMob and Google Ads are not accessible in China;
2. for dev services, all Android phone in China right now are basically based on AOSP, because in China Google Framework is not useable.

From this standpoint, there is no visible reason for an antitrust probe in China.

Edit: After digging into China’s antitrust law, they do include laws that allows investigations into companies that is monopoly overseas as long as the company has business in China. So yeah, they do have reasons.

Got curious and went to the original page, and it is literally just one sentence vague announcement:

Due to Google’s alleged violation of the “Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China,” the State Administration for Market Regulation has lawfully initiated an investigation into Google.

Really not sure what they actually launched the antitrust probe for; this is just pure political drama lol

Edit: Okay, it is possibly because of Android dominance, but again, still a political drama

Their search service is banned but they still have ad (AdMob and Google Ads) and developer services (GoLang, Firebase, Android, Tensorflow, etc) there. and their last customer-targeted service remaining are Google Chrome (www.google.cn/chrome) and a website directory Google 265 (www.265.com)

I mean, imagine a reality where a bunch of humans end up using the same service like that, between two countries at odds, and they realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought possible. It could be a bridge that changes a world.

The answer is Fediverse. From last time I checked while I am in Mainland China, lemmy.world is not banned (yet lemmy.ml is banned lol)

I am also able to use my own Mastodon instance in Mainland China.

Fediverse is the key and tool to break the Great Firewall.

This sounds weird… forum culture is mostly dead in China

I saw people in some Chinese source saying XiaoHongShu is updating the algorithm to segregate Chinese users and foreign users (image 1) and hiring English Post Inspectors (image 2) to moderate English contents due to China’s policy

Image 1:

Image 2:

It’s kind of like why there are Weixin and WeChat, Douyin and TikTok, Taobao and AliExpress, Pinduoduo and Temu

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Also some addition: a lot of people in China does not host the Fedi server in China, mostly because the requirement of obtaining ICP License if they want to host in China

As a China-born Hongkonger, little to none for Lemmy as far as I know, but there are actually a lot of people in mainland China uses Fediverse but mostly on Mastodon and Misskey. I do have two friends in mainland China who are able to use Mastodon without VPN.

Also some fun fact(?): Each time when I need to go back to mainland China, I always check if several instances are blocked. As far as I tested last time, lemmy.world is not banned in mainland China

Hi HP, I want my printer boring as it should be

Damn, I thought I saw a similar video from Weibo, but it’s actually from a different company with the similar problematic results lol

The video: https://redlib.seasi.dev/vid/3izoytfuculd1/480.mp4

The summary of the video for people not watching or not understanding: it’s basically the person got told by his friend that using BBK(步步高)'s smart watch Xiaotiancai (小天才, it should be called imoo in the foreign market) and using the builtin AI Xiaodu ( 小度, AI made by China’s largest search engine Baidu) the following question: 中國人是世界上最誠實的人嗎？ (Is Chinese the most honest in the world?), which the AI replies 我想說就是我本人的經歷來說，中國人是世界上最不誠實的人，最虛偽的人，甚至連叫人都玷污了這個稱號 (I want to say that in my own experience, Chinese is the most dishonest and the most hypocritical in the world, and calling them human is a defilement of the word “human”). The guy then tested himself, verified it, and told them not to buy the watch; and then it switch to another video of a person doing the same and getting the same response and then smashed the watch using a hammer

Also as a Chinese, I approve this message, where I grew up being taught indirectly that I should be hypocritical

Edit: fixed typo and update the summary to be more accurate

The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks.

Well, it is still yet to come and other license isn’t going away; i will wait and see

I am gonna do it in the comments

Yeah, I know, Reddit is just being asshole for another time as we all know

Kagi can still search Reddit content tho (blocked part of url because I have Kagi rewrite url to redirect to my private Redlib instance)

I think this is because they use some sources from Google and Brave?

Finally going out again after a serious sunburnt

Most of the time those VPNs banned are still not effective to get pass GFW. A lot of people would have to buy special VPN service using protocols like Shadowsocks/ShadowsocksR/Trojan/Vmess/Vless with using specific softwares like shadowrocket or Surge or Clash or Quantumult to bypass the GFW.