Martin, Thank you for explaining. I will like to discuss more on detail and would need your help. I am the American in China that possed the VPN issue topic.
Thank you Pacificboy Sent from my iPhone On Feb 21, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Brian Conley <bri...@smallworldnews.tv> wrote: > 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 > > > 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 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
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