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Yiqin Fu
Personal blog · yiqinfu.github.io/postsdatapoliticsculture
Yiqin Fu's personal blog at yiqinfu.github.io covers data, politics and culture. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Unintended Consequences of China Leapfrogging to Mobile Internet”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this review of Internet for the People, a book about the fight over the digital future. The one comment disputes the review's claim that the CCP runs China's internet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog
Most-linked posts?
- The Unintended Consequences of China Leapfrogging to Mobile Internet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-31
What Hacker News says?
>One is run by the CCP The CCP doesn't run 'the Chinese internet'. In many ways the Chinese digital sphere is even more privatized than its European or American counterparts given that its almost entirely built on the back of the vertically integrated private companies that the article attacks. It's why there's basically no comparable search giant to Google, not even domestic in China, everything is driven by propri…
Comment linking /posts/walled-gardens-china/
on “Review of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future”Submitted The Unintended Consequences of China Leapfrogging to Mobile Internet as a story · 166 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Do (Some) Chinese People Pick 'Weird' English Names for Themselves? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Men Have Less Intimate Friendships? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Do's and Don'ts When Handling Data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fame and Influence Across Five Millennia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is the purpose of political scientists? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion