Re: [liberationtech] "Chinas Internet?"

The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their online time on Chinese websites. Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Blogspot and many more (see https://en.greatfire.org) are completely blocked in Mainland China. Most other foreign websites are both considerably slower than domestic ones, and subject to keyword-based blocking of certain URLs. The majority of Internet users outside Mainland China spend 0% of their online time on Chinese websites. This is not just a language issue - there are a lot of Chinese-speaking people outside of Mainland China, and several Chinese websites have English-language interfaces. It's also because they are slow. The Great Firewall slows down traffic in both directions. Concern with censorship may also discourage some users, as seen recently regarding WeChat. In this sense, there is a Chinese Internet or a Chinanet, as opposed to the rest of the Internet. They are not completely cut off from each other, but in practice there is little communication between the two. Unfortunately. Martin Johnson Founder of GreatFire.org | FreeWeibo.com | Unblock.cn.com PGP key https://en.greatfire.org/contact On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:

Most likely it's bad writing. What they likely meant by "China's Internet" is China's social network sphere, such as Sina Weibo communities and so on...

NK

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Brian Conley wrote:

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Photos of the dead sailors, their bodies gagged and blindfolded and some with head wounds suggesting execution-style killings, circulated on Chinabs Internet.

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/chinese-plan-to-use-drone-highl...

I know about the GFW of course, but anyone know the exact meaning of nytimes referencing "China's Internet" as opposed to "was circulated in the Internet by Chinese citizens?"

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