China And Internet
China and Internet.
Since the middle of the years 1990, the exponential growth of the number of users, quantity of data and services on line and the extension to the remainder of the world posed new challenges in term of regulation of the Internet.
This ongoing expansion has fed power rivalries between Internet and governing organizations, national governments, online communities and merchants. It has also been perceived as powerful tools by minority groups eager to get their voice.
Faced with that phenomenal growth, the Chinese authorities have managed to shut down political opposition and control Internet content.
The government practices at the same time a filtering of information to the source, which is based on the technological and political collaboration of foreign companies forced to yield with the local rules to make deals, police is monitoring the exchange and a self-censorship stimulated by a severe legislation and a repression.
The Internet censorship is well known outside China as the “Great Firewall of China” or “The Golden Shield Project”
Here are some examples of notable website blocked:
• Websites belonging to the outlawed qigong group Falun Gong.
• News sources that often cover some taboo topics such as police brutality, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, democracy, and Marxist sites. These sites include Voice of America, BBC News, and Yahoo! Hong Kong.
• Media sites, which may include unregulated content, social commentary or political commentary censored by the PRC. Youtube, Wikipedia, or blogs.
• Web sites that contain obscenity, pornography and criminal activity.
• Sites linked with the Dalai Lama and his International Tibet Independence Movement, including his teachings.
Google is now licensed to do business in China, like the others big American Webmasters like Yahoo, Microsoft, Skype. Etc.
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