Let us tell about Chinese mainland online culture I
If you have been to China , you must find that you can not log in facebook. That is it. Congratulation, you have find the mystery of Chinese mainland Internet-----the "Great Wall" online, which leads to special Internet culture in Chinese mainland.
In the north of China, ancestor empire built a Great Wall to present the enemies from the north. At present the Chinese government also built a Great Wall, a firewall which is the biggest digital boundary in the whole world. This Great Firewall not only prevent the value of the west, but also let Chinese citizens not to get access to the globe free Internet. In China, there are no facebook, no twitter and no youtobe. You may think it is boring to live in the environment without such social network access.(A:It's killing people! ) But Chinese companies is not stupid. Since there is no facebook, Chinese companies copy its mode and become their own product. You may ask why Chinese government can allow the network access rather than facebook. The reason is simple the Chinese government wants to control the information online. How can it do it? Actually, it just control the company. Now, you may understand why facebook can not enter the Chinese market since the its server is based on the US.
There is another way to control the data that is bad for the Party and Government. Indeed, Chinese can not type the word of "Chinese government" and it will become ******. ALL the political words or dirt words will become ****. But, Chinese are not stupid, either. We use some other words which sound like what we want to say to express our feeling like. For example, people use "Grass Mud Horse" as motherfucker. Even though, we do not dear to say bad words to the government since recently there is a Chinese news that if someone say bad words of other with no reasons which becomes hot online, this person who post the blog with bad words will be in jail.
That is Chinese Internet culture, living with data controlled by government.
It's interesting to hear about the internet access in China since we think the Internet is free access to everyone. But hearing that China greatly restricts access just like North Korea shows just how much control they have. I heard that during the World Cup in 2010, the North Korean Government didn't broadcast a game until the game against Portugal which they lost horribly. It's amazing how these governments can control the media and nobody can do anything.
ReplyDeleteWow! Very interesting. I remember talking to a friend last year and he said that the Chinese government has also banned Google from the world wide web. He also told me about the censoring of words. As a web surfer, I can't imagine living in such environment!
ReplyDeleteWow that is interesting about the internet access in China. I have never heard of this and would have never thought anything likes this was in play. Also that is pretty cool how they copied the mode of facebook and made their own!!!
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