China Internet Culture

Chinese users have lower standards for their glamor shot — blurry and what i called candid webcam shots are in.

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2009-03-03:

This view challenges the dominant paradigm we use to understand the Chinese internet, the Great Firewall. Rebecca argues that this makes it harder to understand cybertarianism. We’re tempted to assume that if we just lift the Firewall, China will be free… and that’s an extremely naive view. The GFW only pertains to servers hosted outside of China. For sites hosted within China, the Net Nanny is a much better metaphor for understanding content control.

it is not as straightforward as “the great firewall”

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