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Two years ago, I stayed in Shanghai for 6 months and my personal experience indicates that most Chinese people don't care about internet censorship. To underst
by kaixi 15y ago
Two years ago, I stayed in Shanghai for 6 months and my personal experience indicates that most Chinese people don't care about internet censorship.
To understand this, you should first know that internet in China is a whole ecosystem of its own, pretty much like a giant intranet. For every website that's blocked by the government (Facebook, Twitter, etc) there's a Chinese alternative available, such as Renren and Sina Weibo. Everyone uses these alternative sites, and people don't really feel that their online experience is being restricted.
European and American people who go to China have a hard time adapting themselves though.
- chrischen 15y agoRead chinasmack.com translated comments. If they're indicative at all, then they seem to realize that they are constantly being censored and "harmonized" on these Chinese controlled sites.