[sabatonfan]

Can china make linux illegal?

[BurningFrog]

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.

[underlipton]

Oh, we do that, too. And we also don't protect our own in other countries.

[skinnymuch]

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.

[dhosek]

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

[raincole]

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.)

[bitwize]

If Brazil can, China can.

[sabatonfan]

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?