Oh that list is definitely real 🫠 for example, any list that Joshua Wong is on. The censorship apparatus is so well known that there's a whole dialect of online slang built around it. Get real.

Good to hear your friend is a well behaved citizen that hasn't done anything meaningful to lose access. Sounds like a good boy. (No one cares about your drugs, or torrents behind the firewall btw).

Hey, maybe your Chinese friend proves you right and the billions in China are all cowards and the chilling effect doesn't exist.