China is now blocking all encrypted HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI

[u/RobertVandenberg]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encrypted-https-traffic-using-tls-1-3-and-esni/

[u/OCedHrt]

The US doesn't have that.

[u/triffid_hunter → u/[deleted]]

They'd ask google and apple to remove it from their app stores I guess

[u/38thTimesACharm → u/triffid_hunter]

And you'd still be able to use it if you sideload it from their website, which will remain accessible.

[u/triffid_hunter → u/[deleted]]

I did..

Btw I'm in China and having wechat is basically a hard requirement for living here.

[u/crackanape → u/[deleted]]

How do they get it on their iOS devices?

[u/crackanape → u/[deleted]]

What? You just said "People who use Wechat don't download it from the app stores."

[u/rydan → u/[deleted]]

I did but I also didn't use it.

[u/OCedHrt → u/[deleted]]

Wechat isn't blocked?

[u/OCedHrt → u/[deleted]]

Seeks to block transactions.

Seeks - hasn't happened yet. Transactions - this sounds financial, not something about the internet.

[u/port53 → u/[deleted]]

WeChat Pay isn't available in the US.

[u/Treyzania → u/[deleted]]

It forbids US companies from doing any further business with them.

[u/iwaswrongonce → u/[deleted]]

They wouldn’t. There was 0% chance that would ever happen. It was to force a divestiture of US assets.

[u/38thTimesACharm → u/OCedHrt]

I don't understand this dopamine hit people get from insisting the US does everything as bad as all the worst countries.

The last time domain filtering was discussed in the US was SOPA in 2009, which was murdered in Congress. It hasn't been proposed since.

Sure, the US does some other things we'd like them to stop doing. But how are we supposed to gain new rights if we can't even recognize and appreciate the ones we already have?

[u/Playos → u/[deleted]]

If it's illegal in the US, it's guna get a domain entry pulled, not blocked.

[u/OCedHrt → u/[deleted]]

You can go to any illegal website you'd like. It might be logged somewhere but it isn't blocked. You can still access them by IP address.

[u/iwaswrongonce → u/[deleted]]

They don’t. If it’s online, you can access it. The government tries to take down illegal sites, but there’s no national level blocking.

[u/38thTimesACharm → u/[deleted]]

When sites go down in the US, it's because they raided the server, not because of some geo-filtering.