The Internet in China

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The Internet has become a major tool for communication and access to information for over two and half billion people (Wright 121). Although Internet has become an unavoidable reality that is consuming our planet in a web of information. This process is being shaped by our actions and choices which ultimately drives us together (Deibert 11). Nowadays China has over 538 million netizens, the world’s largest online community (Feng & Guo 335).
Early off, Internet in China was imaged as an information highway which leapfrogged China into modern times (Guobin 51). Today a majority (49%) US blogs are political whereas a majority of blogs in China are more "personal,” where they may post diaries of their personal life. Otherwise they also like to read news, research, communicate via chat/email/social networking sites, entertainment purposes, e-business, e-banking, and e-education (Jiang 23-25) Some have even gone to say that China’s internet is large part of their culture like TV is to America (Guobin 49).
Weibo is an acronym for a microblog. The company opened in August 2009 and is a rip-off of Twitter. By early 2011 there were over 100 million users (Guobin 50). Even Feng cites many other knock-off popular sites, such as: Google (Baidu), ICQ (qq), Facebook (renren), Twitter (weibo), and YouTube (Youku). These sites have all gained a virtual monopoly due to China’s Internet regulations/filtering (Feng & Guo 344). As Guobin states, everyone has different views on the Internet, most people finding a new sense of freedom (Guobin 51).
Since the 1990’s, the Chinese government has had systems in place that block, monitor, and filter the Internet inside/outside of China (Guobin 52). The ‘Great Firewall’, very well is the largest internet filte...

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...rceive this as an attack on China's reputation. Many of the younger generation are fully ready to accept the current balance of freedom and power because they know that they have considerably more freedoms than earlier generations (Jiang 5)
Mainly Chinese get angry at the fact that the West is trying to impose their own ideas/beliefs rather than allowing different social values. As the West sees Internet as a tool for free speech (Jiang 5) as the Internet has no elected government and global cyberspace is supposed to be tyranny free (Saleem 303).
Since the WTO never defined “public interest” or “national security” in means of limiting their own states network, this leaves full rain for China (Mengin73). World community through the WSIS in both Geneva and Tunis had deemed both the United States and China are correct in the realm of Internet governance (Saleem 328).

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