Thanks Martin, I was hoping you'd respond. Good point, Nadim. On Feb 20, 2013 8:20 PM, "Martin Johnson" <greatf...@greatfire.org> wrote:
> The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their > online time on Chinese websites. Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, > Blogspot and many more (see https://en.greatfire.org) are completely > blocked in Mainland China. Most other foreign websites are both > considerably slower than domestic ones, and subject to keyword-based > blocking of certain URLs. > > The majority of Internet users outside Mainland China spend 0% of their > online time on Chinese websites. This is not just a language issue - there > are a lot of Chinese-speaking people outside of Mainland China, and several > Chinese websites have English-language interfaces. It's also because they > are slow. The Great Firewall slows down traffic in both directions. Concern > with censorship may also discourage some users, as seen recently regarding > WeChat. > > In this sense, there is a Chinese Internet or a Chinanet, as opposed to > the rest of the Internet. They are not completely cut off from each other, > but in practice there is little communication between the two. > Unfortunately. > > Martin Johnson > Founder of GreatFire.org | FreeWeibo.com | Unblock.cn.com > PGP key <https://en.greatfire.org/contact> > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Nadim Kobeissi <na...@nadim.cc> wrote: > >> Most likely it's bad writing. What they likely meant by "China's >> Internet" is China's social network sphere, such as Sina Weibo communities >> and so on... >> >> >> NK >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Brian Conley >> <bri...@smallworldnews.tv>wrote: >> >>> Photos of the dead sailors, their bodies gagged and blindfolded and some >>> with head wounds suggesting execution-style killings, circulated on China’s >>> Internet. >>> >>> From: >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/chinese-plan-to-use-drone-highlights-military-advances.html?_r=0 >>> >>> I know about the GFW of course, but anyone know the exact meaning of >>> nytimes referencing "China's Internet" as opposed to "was circulated in the >>> Internet by Chinese citizens?" >>> >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >>> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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