Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet

Says the BBC, from a country that silently introduced a country-wide firewall of it&#x27;s own for protecting people from porn, extremists and pedophiles.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openrightsgroup.org&#x2F;campaigns&#x2F;censorship" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openrightsgroup.org&#x2F;campaigns&#x2F;censorship</a><p>&quot;Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her.&quot;<p>I know there are issues in China, but maybe fix our own problems first.<p>P.S.: I&#x27;ve been to China, and I&#x27;ve seen people using tech even in remote places with a much higher causality for solving language barriers for example, compared to Western nations. Also, they don&#x27;t give a bit about copyright ideas, so no, internet censorship is definitely not killing innovation there. Slowing it down a littlebit, maybe, but not killing it.

This is the same China whose central government, officially an atheist state, claims authority on deciding who the next Dalai Lama will be reincarnated as - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;3743742&#x2F;dalai-lama-china-reincarnation-tibet-buddhism&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;time.com&#x2F;3743742&#x2F;dalai-lama-china-reincarnation-tibet...</a><p>I&#x27;d love to hear perspective on this matter from people closer to the source.

Most of my friends here in China just do good without the open internet. Like the article says, for every major blocked application or website, there is a home-grown substitute. People can get the information or the service they need from these substitutes.<p>I personally find that that the Chinese version of Wikipedia is blocked is annoying.<p>If the Great Firewall must exist, I&#x27;d like it to be more advanced. This way, it can block in a finer granularity. Instead of blocking a whole website, it can block an individual webpage that annoys it.

Honest question: what is it that Chinese officials fear would happen, if they let their citizens have free access to the internet?

1. Activists and developers are two totally different group of people. CNN is totally wrong in this point.<p>2. Facebook vs Renren NOT Facebook vs Wechat. Wechat is shit!<p>3. Most evidences are true.

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Is CNN trying to get itself blocked too? They are like the last one (besides Fox News) that aren&#x27;t.

Trust me CNN, it is hardly different from how we wage a war on the Internet (CISA, CISPA, TPP and what not). Do you not use that ton of cruft on your site with similar designs?