No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.

Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.

I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.

Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.

In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.

Are you talking about the same Al Jazeera that Arab Islamist countries despotic leaders hate so much that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Libya, Bahrain and others added ‘immediate and permanent closure of Al Jazeera’ to their shortlist of primary demands during the Qatari diplomatic crisis from 2017-2021?

The same Al Jazeera English that’s won multiple Peabody awards, the New York Festival TV & Film broadcaster of the year in 2022 & 2023 and the Royal Television Society Award in 2021 & 2022?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_awarded_to_Al_Jazeera_English

P.s. its OK I know they’re trolling, I just like to spread education for others who may glance over OP’s post and take it at face value.