When General Secretary Xi Jinping was in San Francisco last fall, he declared that America and China "must not erect barriers" between one another. He can be true to his word by tearing down the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Great Firewall.

The Great Firewall is a dystopian censorship regime designed to advance near-total societal control over the Chinese people. With an army of censors boosted by artificial intelligence and the assistance of cutting-edge technology, it monitors all information and expression within China, enabling the CCP to rapidly stamp out unapproved speech, while referring violations to the police.

The Great Firewall inhibits contact between Chinese citizens and the outside world. Information is stopped from flowing into China and the Chinese people are not allowed to get information out. Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube are blocked. Behind the Great Firewall, the CCP has the Chinese people trapped in a parallel reality where they are fed a steady stream of propaganda tightly controlled by Xi's authoritarian regime.

The CCP has turned the internet, designed as a tool of freedom, into the ultimate tool of........

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