A “Bitter Winter” of Controls for China’s Internet
On China Media Project, David Bandurski translates a blog post by Tan Yifei about the current status of Internet control in China:
The day before yesterday, I was in the city of Chongqing and I sat down for beers and grilled fish with a group of friends in IT. An air of desolation and death is p ...
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You can thank Bush, and now Obama, for enabling China. Neither is smart enough to understand anything other than how to get elected.
Hopefully the Google issue will not trigger a backlash from the government, and that the tightening of control mentioned in the article isn’t indicative of broader entrenchment. The last thing China needs right now is some kind of nation-wide political campaign aimed at ‘harmonizing’ its internet users.