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If any two people across the world from each other access the Internet at the same time, will they experience the same thing? To answer this question, some people may point out that people in China experience something much different than the rest of the world because of content filtering and the Great Firewall. Others may point out Internet restrictions in Venezuela and Cuba. Some could mention countries from the

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