Behind the Great Firewall of China Michael Anti

in the past several days I heard people

talking about China and also I talked to

friends about China and Chinese internet

something is very challenging to me I

want to make my friends to understand

China is complicated so I always want to

tell the story like one hand it is there

the other hand is that you can’t just

tell one Side Story I give you example

China is a brick country brick country

means breezier Russia India and China

this emerging economy really is helping

Reviver of the world economy but at the

same time on the other hand China is a

sick country the terminology owned by

Facebook IPO paper fire he said the sick

country means Syria Iran China and North

Korea the four countries have no access

to Facebook

so basically China is a sick brick

country another project was speedo to

watch China and Chinese internet and now

today I want to tell you my personal

expression in the past several years

from that war so if you are a fan of the

game my throne you definitely know how

important a big war for Old Kingdom it

prevent weird things from the north same

was true for China in the north there

was a great war Chunkin it protect China

from invaders for 2,000 years but China

also have a Great Firewall that’s the

biggest digital boundary in the whole

world

not only to defend Chinese regime from

the oversea from the universal value but

also prevent Chinese on citizen to

access the global free Internet

and even separate themselves into blocks

not United

so basically Internet has two internets

one is the Internet the other is the

channel net but if you think the

china-led is something like a dead land

Westerlund I think it’s wrong but we

also use very simple metaphor the cat

and mouse game to describe in the past

15 years the continuing fight between

Chinese censorship government censorship

the cat and the Chinese Internet users

dumbing us the mouse but sometimes this

kind of a metaphor is too simple so

today I want to upgrade it to 2.0

version in China we have 500 million

instant users that’s biggest population

the net isn’t instant users in the whole

world

so if even Chinese is a totally censored

internet Bastyr Chinese Internet Society

you’re really booming how make it simple

you have Google we have by do you have

twitter we have Weibull you have

facebook we have Linda you have YouTube

we have Youku and Tudou Chinese

government blocked every singer

international web 2 Ponder’s of this and

we Chinese copycat everyone so that’s

kind of the thing I caught a small

censorship so that’s not only to censor

you sometimes that’s Chinese national

Internet policy is very simple block and

clone only one hand he want to satisfy

people’s need of social network which is

very important if people really love

social networking but on the other hand

they want to keep the server in Beijing

so they can access the data anytime they

want

that’s also the reason Google was Paula

from China because they can’t accept the

fact Chinese come and want to keep the

server sometimes the Arab dictators

didn’t understand these two hands

for example Mubarak he shut down the

internet he want to prevent the netizens

to criticize him but once not even

canticle online they go on straight and

now the result is very simple we all

know who Barack is technically dead but

also Ben Ali Tunisia present didn’t

follow the second rule lemmings keep the

server in your hand he allow Facebook a

us-based services service to continue

stay on inside Tunisia so he can’t

prevent it his own citizens to post

critical video against his corruption is

the same thing happened he was the first

to tobert during the Arab Spring but

those two very smart international

censorship policy didn’t prevent Chinese

social media become a really public

sphere a path of fear of public opinion

and the nightmare of Chinese officials

because we have 300 million micro

bloggers in China it’s the entire

population of United States so when

these three hundred million people

Michael bloggers even they block the

treat in a censored platform but itself

is the China net but it’s server can

create very powerful in energy which

never happened in the Chinese history

2011 the July 2 breathing trance crashed

in window a southern city right after

the train crash authorities literally

want to cover up the trend perimeter so

it angered Chinese netizens the first

five days of the train crash

there were 10 million queries above the

posting on social media which never

happened in Chinese history and NATO

later this year the real minister was

sacked and sentenced to death for 10

years and also very recently very funny

debate between the Beijing Environment

Ministry and American Embassy in Beijing

because the ministry blame and Merck

embassy for intervening Chinese internal

politics by disclosing the air quality

data of Beijing so the app is the

embassy data the PM 2.5 he show 148 the

show is dangerous for sensitive group so

suggestion is not good to go outside but

the DA is the ministry’s data

he shows 50 he said it’s good it’s good

to go outside but 99 percent of Chinese

mica bloggers stand firmly on the

embassy side

I live in Beijing every day I just watch

the American Embassy’s data to decide

whether I should open my window why

Chinese social networking even reading

the censorship is so balmy part of

reason is Chinese languages you know

Twitter and Twitter clones have a kind

of a nutrition 140 characters but in

English is 20 words or sentence with a

show link maybe in Germany a German

language maybe just aha

but in Chinese language is really about

140 characters means a paragraph a story

you can almost have all the journalistic

elements to there for example this is

the hamlet of a Shakespeare is same

content one you can see exactly one

Chinese treat is equal to three point

five English trees Chinese always teach

eating right so because of this Chinese

really regarded this microblogging as a

media not only headline to media and

also the club signal company is the guy

who cloned that Twitter the even has a

long name would with women Weibo is

Chinese translation for microblog it has

owned the innovation at the commenting

area make the Chinese web war more like

Facebook rather than Orangina Twitter so

these innovations and the clones as the

Weibo and micro blogging when they come

to China in 2009 they immediately become

the media platform itself it become a

media platform 300 million readers they

become the media it was anything not

mentioned in web or it does not appear

to exist for Chinese public but also

Chinese social media is really changing

Chinese mindset and Chinese life

for example they give the voiceless

people a channel to make your voice

heard

we had a prediction system is the remedy

outside the judicial system because

Chinese central government want to keep

a Miss the Emperor is good the old local

officials are sucks so that’s why the

petitioner the victims of the peasant

went to take a train to Beijing to

petition to central government once the

Emperor want to settle the problem but

when more and more people will go to

Beijing they also cause the risk of

revolution so they send them back recent

years and even some of them would put

into black ear

but now we have the Weibull so I called

Weibull petition people just to use the

cellphone to treat so your self stories

by some chance your story would be pick

up by reporters professors or

celebrities one of that is yotan she’s