> including the Federal Government itself, whose behavior we never agreed to in a TOS agreement

You voted for them, which is their way of saying "see, it's in the fine print, hahaha"

Not everybody who lives in a country has the right to vote.

Google never got much market share before it was more seriously blocked. ICQ too failed compared to QQ despite not being blocked. I think the bigger reason is foreign companies just don't provide what Chinese people want - ie Chinese language and millions of flashing banner ads.

I think your theory might be chicken-and-egg. Without access to the website easily, companies don't have a real reason to invest in Chinese language versions of their service.

Both Google and ICQ had almost two decades before they were blocked.

Like ethercalc, you can use any URL, even non-secret ones like: https://ethersheet.org/s/1