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Have been living and working in China since 10 years. This article is a good typical case of China misunderstanding. Example: > Chinese private internet

by gbog 14y ago

Have been living and working in China since 10 years. This article is a good typical case of China misunderstanding. Example: > Chinese private internet companies, many of them clones of Western ones, have been allowed to flourish so long as they do not deviate from the party line. There is not one party line that everyone follows, this was true 30 years ago but isn't anymore. What we have is a blurry moving red line delimiting the topics that will trigger censorship. Germany and France also have censorship. The difference is in the protected topics, the number of them and the blurrynesss of the lines.

vorg 14y ago
> There is not one party line that everyone follows That's because governments, both China and the US, is made up of people with opinions. The sort of people that get themselves into government are the same types of people who use the internet to keep power. And not just in governments like the US and China, but also startups, VC funds, IT consulting companies, etc. These same types of people create lots of pseudonym logins on Hacker News to influence opinion about their products and services, another form of internet control.