# Timeouts within mainland China

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeouts-within-mainland-china/120723
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeouts-within-mainland-china/120723 "2019-06-18T18:20:32Z")
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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/timeouts-within-mainland-china/120723/4 "2019-06-18T19:48:10Z")

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There’s some suggestions for this already on meta, I would recommend [searching](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=china) and going through the results.

For example:

> [@Our Discourse is blocked by The Great Firewall of China, any tips?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/our-discourse-is-blocked-by-the-great-firewall-of-china-any-tips/67423/4):
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> Discourse itself, as a general technology, doesn’t appear to be on any permanent blocklists. In my experience, the key to not getting a given site blocked by the GFoC is to not piss off the Chinese Government. That means: Don’t have any talk about Falun Gong, criticism of the regime, or similarly politically controversial topics on your site. Don’t compete with anything run by a Chinese company. Mirroring of content to anywhere else outside of China is unlikely to last long, as they’ll fin…

> [@Jeremy\_Williams](#):
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> wouldn’t be considered offensive to the PRC

Unfortunately I suspect _any_ recommendation other than “behave well and hope you don’t get quietly blocked” would be offensive to the PRC.

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