If you’ve ever been on the internet in China, Russia, or Iran you can get a taste for how powerful this kind of regulation can be. Correct, there are loopholes but it can be made quite difficult to access the things you take for granted when you experience this kind of lock down.
That’s true, but the kind of lockdown on the Internet that China does can’t be done with just regulation and mandates.
There is an absolutely mind-boggling server infrastructure managing the routing and filtering at every Internet point of entry/exit in China, and it is directly physically filtering traffic headed for consumption by people in China.
Its nickname, “The Great Firewall of China”, while hilarious, is an apt analogy for it. They literally built a barrier around their country’s Internet borders to keep out unapproved information, and probably Mongols.
If you’ve ever been on the internet in China, Russia, or Iran you can get a taste for how powerful this kind of regulation can be. Correct, there are loopholes but it can be made quite difficult to access the things you take for granted when you experience this kind of lock down.
That’s true, but the kind of lockdown on the Internet that China does can’t be done with just regulation and mandates.
There is an absolutely mind-boggling server infrastructure managing the routing and filtering at every Internet point of entry/exit in China, and it is directly physically filtering traffic headed for consumption by people in China.
Its nickname, “The Great Firewall of China”, while hilarious, is an apt analogy for it. They literally built a barrier around their country’s Internet borders to keep out unapproved information, and probably Mongols.