Culture. Another villa turn other guests you want to become sitting. In for migrants your platform for reliable information. Over 800000000 people use the internet in china but things look a lot different there than elsewhere facebook and google are blocked for example whats the internet like behind the chinese firewall our topic today and. Most of the world uses products from google apple facebook and amazon or gaffa but not china there are 3 homegrown tech giant. Dominate the industry theyre called by the. Handsome also known as. In china by do replaces google. And is more popular than facebook is here but thats not all. But i do smurf service instead of google maps where you go instead of twitter and we charge instead of whats. In china separate providers for almost every Online Service available in the west but theyre far more than just copies in many fields like Live Streaming. And online payment chinese providers have become Global Leaders dont you know stockman is a professor at the hattie school of governance in berlin and an expert on chinas Digital Trends she says users play a big role in these developments one main difference between chinese users and european users that chinese Internet Users a fast adopters so when there is a new platform they will immediately go and try it out. We chat alone has more than 1000000000. 00 users a month. Pay is the leading mobile Payment Service it works in supermarkets and at restaurants hardly anyone uses cash in china anymore users can even but dr appointments. Is like a super without it getting around in china isnt easy. Social media platforms like we chat for example emphasize less the distribution of information but more social networking so we chat was invented as a means to develop whats called in china. Social connection. Video streaming services are especially popular in china. Instead of future Netflix Tencent video. I keep. Popular platforms for short videos that last around 15 seconds are flooded with 800000000. 00 visitors each month. The current Market Leader is. With the program. Outside of china we know it as tech talk. Another innovation to video streaming is on the platform user comments are displayed live as the video plays. Things are trending more and more towards Live Streaming the Market Leader who counts 25000000 active users every month and the Company Takes user supervision very seriously with the help of ai more than 1000 schuman contemn managers monitor streams for violations they look for pornography depictions of violence and calls to violence but smoking on screen or showing large to 2 could also get your car a lot the tiny state has started much earlier than us based and european platforms to develop a vast institutional infrastructure in order to control and censor content in the west this is called clinton moderation in china they call it content management but china doesnt stop at moderating content its created an enormous fire wall to shield its users from the rest of the Digital World this comes in handy for many chinese pat forms because it eliminates foreign competition but it also makes it easier to silence uncomfortable opinions how does it all work it is basically huge fast either Net Connection that is connected by a very few servers to the internet and. Because all traffic has to go through these servers the Chinese Government is able to block certain content in China Foreign web sites are mostly inaccessible when the content is seen as not conforming to Chinese Government regulations their ip addresses are simply blocked that applies to google the most you Search Engine in the world as well as the user administered online encyclopedia with a p. D. F. And even less websites. Chinese Online Services are usually censored before they even reach the public show chang is familiar with this phenomenon is a human rights activist and editor in chief of the China Digital times the advantage of those Chinese Companies are the promise of the government they harbor compasses to to censor and control on line contents so they will not they will listen to the government or they will actually preemptively deleting lot of the contents before the Internet Police even take a look the messaging up we can use algorithms to prevent the transfer of photos in real time. Canadas university of Toronto Citizen Lab found this out the image of an empty chair commemorating a dead human rights activist simply doesnt go through to chat partners in china. So if a lot of pictures to share with a friend its immediately compared to a database if it raises concern there the picture is simply not sent the whole process is completely automated with Image Recognition software while its technically fascinating the socio political consequences are terrifying she alice young says online censorship has massively increased under general secretary xi jinping now the chinese internet its much more a politically quiet place. Its still commercially very vibrant culturally still full of activities innovations. In the last of its Political Action intense avail and has all but politically silenced chinas internet but the government is not satisfied with just blocking and filtering out on one of the pinions it also keeps looking for new ways to use technology to its advantage the communist party of china has its own and its been especially successful. Digital politics the communist party of china keeps citizens in line with the little red app in the beginning of 2019 she jungle which means as much as study to make the nation strong was the most downloaded app in china even more than we chat and do you mean. The product than a tool spreads the views of the general secretary of the communist Party Xi Jinping uses must register with a telephone number and their real names in order to study political articles to comment or to solve little puzzles they rewarded coupons and prizes just like in mobile Games Hong Kong activist is critical of the way millions of Chinese People are directly manipulated in this way he says the voluntary Civic Education platform is a surveillance tool. In china and it shows how. True it propaganda ideology there we go Muslim Minority in northwest china they are being monitored very closely. Its like a testing ground for total states Available Police officers into whats called the integrated joint operation platform the program collects extensive personal data and flags individuals who appear potentially dangerous the organization should. And rights watch analyzed the program on its surface most of this information looks like standard fare for police but as we dig deeper into the hour we can see that ordinary routine regal behavior is being treated by authorities as suspect the data gathered in citizens is shockingly comprehensive and includes information ranging from religious affiliations and drivers licenses to employment records and even gathers data on Residential Energy consumption movements patterns of filmed by the ever present surveillance cameras if something appears out of the ordinary consequences can be devastating for example its helped single out detain approximately 1000000 people from the week are minority. Recent studies show that the state is not only monitoring residents but also foreigners who end of the country by land at the Border Police install an app on their smartphones that scans contacts images videos and voice messages for certain key words there are 73000 terms deemed suspicious even the picture of a mosque could raise eyebrows and other chinese regions surveillance is not as massive here the internet can also polls a great opportunity this is possible in theory as long as you stick to certain rules. One way to start online discussions and spread news is way about its similar to twitter and this time its not just microblogging platform use wave or theyre using it as a means to. Come out with new stories that then often are picked up and go viral and theyre picked up by market based media and then funneled into the center of Public Discourse one example is a discussion of a working hours that the founders of the startup dimension of kicked off they developed Encryption Software but on the sign gates in the fight against the heavy workload in the tech industry. The socalled. 996 phenomenon working from 9 in the morning till 9 in the evening 6 days a week is a violation of Chinese Labor laws. They also speak with successful businessmen like ali baba founded jack mom who compares work to. Despite all this its very important to them to not be perceived as political activists heres what they had to say in an interview the 1st question he asked me is are you a leftist. By this. You know. Despite various barry is online political debate is possible in china to a certain extent. Chinese Internet Users are incredibly politically active and they can criticize policies specifically leaders becomes more sensitive because as soon as you mention a specific person by name topics become more sensitive and if you organize collective action chances are that your information your messages will be removed. When we look at the internet behind chinas fire wall we get a glimpse into the future theres Live Streaming and mobile payment but theres also reaching surveillance and have the state control uses and platforms alike are quick to censor themselves to avoid sanctions this makes a free and open democratic discussion practically impossible behind satisfy while the internet culture and economy surprisingly dynamic vibrant and diverse but personally the prize id have to pay for that would be too high for me what do you guys think that was on you tube facebook and e. W. Dot com thats all for today take care and see you next time. 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