{"id":6892,"date":"2012-11-21T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2012-11-21T02:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T07:54:37","slug":"myths-about-the-great-fire-wall-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/myths-about-the-great-fire-wall-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths About The Great (Fire) Wall Of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112112_0735_MythsAboutT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t really understand how China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China\">Great Firewall<\/a> works writes Eveline Chao. Some of the things you might not know include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the most part it&#8217;s not the government who does the censoring. Instead private companies who operate on the internet are forced to obtain a license which requires them to censor their own content, based on what might offend the communist party.<\/li>\n<li>Not all criticism of the government is censored. In fact the majority of criticism remains uncensored; it&#8217;s only calls to organize or take action that is blocked.<\/li>\n<li>The internet will not lead to democracy. While the internet provides opportunities to express the desire for democratic, freedoms; it can also be used to more easily monitor and quash dissent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the dangers of using a VPN in China, the rarity of blanket bans, and how much the Chinese understand about the firewall that surrounds them over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/20\/five_myths_about_the_chinese_internet?page=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/11\/20\/five_myths_about_the_chinese_internet?page=full\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t really understand how China&#8217;s Great Firewall works writes Eveline Chao. Some of the things you might not know include: For the most part it&#8217;s not the government who does the censoring. Instead private companies who operate on the internet are forced to obtain a license which requires them to censor their own content, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/112112_0735_MythsAboutT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}