The first time I read this quote is in Peter Hessler's Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory.
He use it to summarize Chinese reform and opening. You cannot get any permission from goverment, but you can try it first. If something bad happens, ask forgiveness. It maybe the core reason of Chinese speed.
People who concerns their information source are keeping using RSS all the time. RSS can confirm you receives all the news you subscribed everyday and decide read which article by yourself.
I hate some new media who provides App only. App can increase DAU and maybe better for their KPI, but will lose serious reader.
I have read some stories during the year without Internet in Xinjiang.
In fact people can still connect to local network then, they just disconnected the link from province level ISP to Internet.
Some young mans built local websites provides movie, softwares downloads, news and bbs inside the LAN. They travels to nearest town outside Xinjiang every week by train, download new resources in net bar, bring them back in hard disk and update their websites. Nobody knows how long will the disconnection last and somebody prepared to maintain the LAN from long years. It makes me recall 20 years ago I access contents on Internet through CD-ROM in magazines.
In the end, the Internet recovered and these websites soon disappeared.
China's law requires all Apps to keep chat log for 6 months. Wechat just doesn't provide download so that they can reduce the cost of storage and bandwidth.
I will always remember Aaron Swartz.
I was a student when he leaves. His story really shocked me and taught me what is free, taught me what should I do with my knowledge.
I didn't aware it has been five years since then. But now I gaze at the past five years, I'm glad that I'm on the right way which I expected five years ago.