Amazing, isn’t it?
From your link:
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Are average Chinese Internet users afraid of the government’s Internet control system?
No. To begin with, not that many of them are even aware of it. The government discourages upfront discussion of the Great Firewall’s existence, what sites or search terms are forbidden, etc. Moreover, to the extent people are aware of it, indications are that they are hardly up in arms. My wife, Deborah Fallows, represents the Pew Internet project in China. In March of this year she released a study showing that a strong majority of Chinese Internet users welcomed the idea of controls over Web content and thought it was only natural that the government would do the controlling. This is a startling concept to many Westerners, but she explains the logic of it here.
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Hi everyone,maybe I’m the fourth Chinese ‘agency’ here :)
I’m in Shanghai now. I can tell u something about the Great Firewall.
We can visit almost all the Internet websites,except those about ‘Chinese Democracy’,’Criticism of Chinese leaders’,’FaLunGong’,’1989’(’64’).
Usually it only forbids pages written in Chinese.
We can visit BBC,CNN,AOL and MSNBC,but can’t visit VOA.
We can visit wikipedia (except Chinese version) and Youtube,but if we search keywords like ‘1989’,’Tiananmen’, the website will be temporarily forbidden for several minutes,reporting ‘DNS Error’.
Hi everyone,maybe I’m the fourth Chinese ‘agency’ here :)
I’m in Shanghai now. I can tell u something about the Great Firewall.
We can visit almost all the Internet websites,except those about ‘Chinese Democracy’,’Criticism of Chinese leaders’,’FaLunGong’,’1989’(’64’).
Usually it only forbids pages written in Chinese.
We can visit BBC,CNN,AOL and MSNBC,but can’t visit VOA.
We can visit wikipedia (except Chinese version) and Youtube,but if we search keywords like ‘1989’,’Tiananmen’, the website will be temporarily forbidden for several minutes,reporting ‘DNS Error’.