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		tushar-r on Feb 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese survei... Pretty certain they did not. China controls the Internet a little too seriously and has banned Google for many years to allow them to fly Loon balloons beaming free internet to their population.

pifm_guy on Feb 5, 2023 [–]

They didn't give permission for the internet service to launch there. But they did give overflight permission.

thebytefairy on Feb 5, 2023 | [–]

If they gave permission, then that's a very different scenario to this one.

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