#internet firewall

BEHIND THE FIREWALL: How China tamed the Internet | This is part of a series examining the impact of China’s Great Firewall by Wall Street Journeal, a mechanism of Internet censorship and surveillance that affects nearly 700 million users.

China’s scary lesson to the world:

First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing information harmful to the Communist Party from entering the country.

Just as one fell, so will the other be eventually dismantled, because information, like people, cannot be held back forever.

Or so the argument goes. Defensive no more about its censorship record, China is trumpeting its vision of “Internet sovereignty” as a model for the world and is moving to make it a legal reality at home. At the same time — confounding Western skeptics — the Internet is nonetheless thriving in China, with nearly 700 million users, putting almost 1 in 4 of the world’s online population behind the Great Firewall.

What China calls the “Golden Shield” is a giant mechanism of censorship and surveillance that blocks tens of thousands of websites deemed inimical to the Communist Party’s narrative and control, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even Instagram.

Indeed, China’s Firewall is far more sophisticated and multi-tiered than a simple on-off switch: It is an attempt to bridge one of the country’s most fundamental contradictions — to have an economy intricately connected to the outside world but a political culture closed off from such “Western values” as free speech and democracy.

In December, Beijing promoted its vision at a glitzy World Internet Conference in the historic eastern town of Wuzhen, the second such annual meeting, attended by leaders from Russia, Pakistan and several other nations that don’t score highly on global indices of Internet freedom.

Although it has failed to convince the West, China’s latest moves to legalize and bolster its digital barrier bring “Internet sovereignty” a step closer to reality.

“One of the things the Chinese government is trying to do is to gradually change the facts on the ground,” Creemers said. “If it can’t get agreement in the international sphere about Internet sovereignty, it will just present people with a fait accompli.”

At the same time, Edward Snowden’s revelations about the scale of global surveillance conducted over the Internet by U.S. intelligence agencies has been “the gift that keeps on giving” for China, Creemers said, undermining any pretense that anyone else was really playing by the rules or any Western claims to the moral high ground.

Creemers argues that predictions of the Firewall’s imminent demise are a product of a mistaken post-Cold War consensus that Western freedom and democracy were inevitable and that the free flow of information over the Internet would help usher in a new era.

“The Internet,” he said, “is as much a tool for control, surveillance and commercial considerations as it is for empowerment.”

The caged economy-remember this was ALWAYS what Deng Xiao Ping and people of his era being the economic architects of China built. In a e-commercial world, the cage is extended to the cyber space.

Edward Snowden’s greatest insight to the world is: all ravens are black.  Be it in the ‘free’ world or autocratic and dictating world. The reasons used in the ‘free’ world is ‘anti-terrorists’ and the justifications used in the autocratic and dictating world is ‘stability’ of the rulers’ regimes but the common reason for both worlds is ‘national interests’ and/or ‘national security’. 

Internet, after all, is a virtual disillusion to make people think they are having ‘freedom’ to access neutral information. There is no perfect ‘neutrality’ of the net world. 

At the worst, it is some countries living in the Matrix world of movies.

At a more relative ‘free’ world of net, we are all actors and actresses in a mega world true man shows. 

Rulers have incurable power addiction-to prey on ordinary citizens. The reinforced their perpetual power games by fear and scare tactics through spreading terrors and intimidation.

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A Google search of Mao Zedong will yield different results in Charleston than it will in Beijing. China’s censorship of the Internet is well known and, colored by a confused political and economic history, rife with misconceptions in the West. The Golden Shield Project, colloquially called the Great Firewall, began operating in 2003. Run by…