From “All Things Considered,” on National Public Radio
In China, Avoiding The 'Great Firewall' Internet Censors
In the U.S., it's easy to take the Internet for granted. Not only has it changed the way we live and work, it's become our new public square. At this point, expressing an opinion online is second nature. But in China, it's a lot more complex. China has some 600 million Internet users, and that's more than anywhere else in the world. But this so-called Great Firewall can censor certain opinions, even targeting specific words to be blocked. To hear more about how the Chinese government censors the Internet and the underground code words that manage to beat it, we're joined in our studios now by Xiao Qiang. He's the editor of the China Digital Times, a bilingual Chinese news site based in California....
Xiao Qiang is the editor of the China Digital Times, and he teaches in the School of Information at UC Berkeley.
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