Scratch and China (Discussion on Recent Website Block)

DancingNekoGirl

leahcimto wrote:
Aw man! We are going to lose a LOT of scratchers!

True, I just welcomed a new Scratcher from China. What I believe is that they shouldn't ban a coding site just because the leaders can't get along…

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leahcimto

DancingNekoGirl wrote:
leahcimto wrote:
Aw man! We are going to lose a LOT of scratchers!
True, I just welcomed a new Scratcher from China. What I believe is that they shouldn't ban a coding site just because the leaders can't get along…

I agree.

pavcato

leahcimto wrote:
DancingNekoGirl wrote:
leahcimto wrote:
Aw man! We are going to lose a LOT of scratchers!
True, I just welcomed a new Scratcher from China. What I believe is that they shouldn't ban a coding site just because the leaders can't get along…
I agree.

Yep, the actual numbers of people from China are about 20k -30k but that's still a lot of people being banned.

Basic88

Goodbye -Zyte-

Well, is there any strong evidence, or it this just a rumor?

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Basic88

leahcimto wrote:
Aw man! We are going to lose a LOT of scratchers!

About 5%

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Maximouse

Basic88 wrote:
Goodbye -Zyte-

Well, is there any strong evidence, or it this just a rumor?

-Zyte- is still here, see profile.
Evidence about the block: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-www/issues/4315#issuecomment-673970785

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Basic88

Maximouse wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Goodbye -Zyte-

Well, is there any strong evidence, or it this just a rumor?
-Zyte- is still here, see profile.
Evidence about the block: https://github.com/LLK/scratch-www/issues/4315#issuecomment-673970785

Oh, it is blocked.

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ThatOneWeirdDude

They could at least let the offline editor download links be able to be accessed smh

Basic88

ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
They could at least let the offline editor download links be able to be accessed smh

Well, the link is still in the Scratch domain, so probably not.

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DancingNekoGirl

Basic88 wrote:
ThatOneWeirdDude wrote:
They could at least let the offline editor download links be able to be accessed smh
Well, the link is still in the Scratch domain, so probably not.

There are probably some good alternatives like Kano, althlugh some of it is aimed at younger kids.

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Basic88

Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.

To answer the OP's question, yes, there should be an announcement regarding this.

Last edited by Basic88 (Aug. 14, 2020 18:28:38)

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Basic88

The Scratch Team is aware of the issue

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64lu

Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.

I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/277957993/

Basic88

64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location

The problem goes beyond that. They also pointed at a project where there was a map of China with no Taiwan.

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garnet-chan

64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location

It's already changed.

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DownsGameClub

garnet-chan wrote:
64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location
It's already changed.

I think that's already been a thing. At registration it might be a bit different.

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Maximouse

garnet-chan wrote:
It's already changed.

It has always been called that in Account Settings but not in the join flow.

(ninja'd)

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64lu

Basic88 wrote:
64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location
The problem goes beyond that. They also pointed at a project where there was a map of China with no Taiwan.

that's the community though, I think the only thing they found wrong with the Scratch software itself was that.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/277957993/

Basic88

DownsGameClub wrote:
garnet-chan wrote:
64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location
It's already changed.
I think that's already been a thing. At registration it might be a bit different.

It is different:

Last edited by Basic88 (Aug. 14, 2020 18:51:38)

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leahcimto

garnet-chan wrote:
64lu wrote:
Basic88 wrote:
Watching the video, I see that they keep pointing at “Hong Kong and Taiwan are not listed as merged into China”, so maybe we may have to do a few things to unban scratch.
I believe there is a suggestion on GitHub to change country to location
It's already changed.

That is just in account setings
EDIT: Ninja'd

Last edited by leahcimto (Aug. 14, 2020 18:55:15)

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