HackerNews is read surprisingly widely here. I've met Chinese people (who work in tech) who read it. But the strangest thing I saw was a random older relative of my wife who linked an article that was just translations of various HN comments.
I don't remember which post they were from. It was an AskHN - something like "what's the worst codebase you've ever seen" or whatever. It was surreal to see the translations linked a month after I'd read the original thread.
Our wish is with you, tiny island democratic people. The free world is on your side. I don’t think this time we as a free world will tolerate another tiananmen; China would face fury and economic sanctions like never before.
These sites are also saying it's blocked: https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=news.ycombinato... http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.c...
Still blocked this morning: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fnews...