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> If you look at the point of a Chinese, the block of Google/Facebook certainly can be justified by "geopolitical adversary has control". The exactly same reasoning of data security and propaganda manipulation can be applied.

It could, but that's clearly not the reason they are banned in China. IIRC, foreign websites were perfectly kosher in China just as long as they fully complied with its illiberal censorship regime.

For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China:

> "In January 2010, Google announced ... they were no longer willing to censor searches in China and would pull out of the country completely if necessary."

> ... On 6 August [2018], China Communist Party's official newspaper People's Daily published a column which was soon deleted saying that they might welcome a return of Google if it plays by Beijing's strict rules for media oversight.

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> You can't say without hypocrisy that China blocking US social media is censorship but US banning Chinese app is national security.

I can without hypocrisy (see above). Your ignorance doesn't make your false equivalencies true.




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