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Comment by sabatonfan

3 months ago

Can china make linux illegal?

Not only that, they can ignore their laws and disappear/kill you whenever they feel like it.

They're not killing their own people by the millions like in Mao's days, but it's still a brutal dictatorship when it wants to be.

  • Chinese people lives are getting better and they largely are on the same page. Meanwhile the US has DEI in the govt while the govt says DEI is bad. Minority authoritarian rule in the US with the Senate.

    The US is a brutal dictatorship all the time.

    China thankfully has a govt that is on the same page as the people.

    • Obvious troll or just mentally sick.

      Country with social credit, LLMs that have a seizure at "Tiananment square", Winnie the Pooh and Taiwan, Great firewall, cultural genocide of Uyghurs is a country where "lives are getting better" while US is a brutal dictatorship, my fucking sides.

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What makes you think they wouldn’t if they felt it would be useful? Or more likely, require a particular government-endorsed Linux.

They can make iPhone illegal.

Would they? Unlikely, given iPhone creates a lot of jobs there. But if iPhone becomes the de facto devices for Chinese citizens to access illegal content then the chance is none-zero.

(And of course they can make Linux illegal too. It's just harder to enforce than making iPhone illegal.)

If Brazil can, China can.

  • Can you give me the source of where brazil made linux illegal? I am sorry but I tried to search and the only references I could find were of brazil banning twitter/X for some reason.

    I am genuinely curious how someone can decide linux to be illegal. How would the ban even work out?

    • Brazil has what is known as the Felca law, which requires providers of app stores and "terminal operating systems" to do age verification and to provide secure auditable APIs that meet government standards for doing the same. Presumably, specific distros like Red Hat can go through a government approval process in order to be legal to distribute in Brazil, but without such certification and without providing such system-level APIs, a random distro like Debian will be illegal to distribute in Brazil.