And bennetta won the award for the weekends most valuable player for her house for the rest of africas basketball lovers the future is looking bright. Youre watching the news from berlin up next shift with an indepth look at how women worldwide are using Social Media Platforms for fight violence and discrimination back at the top the hour with more nukes sit with us. Im secure that my war thats hard and in the end is a me youre not allowed to stay here and more we will send you back. Are you familiar with this. With the smugglers were alliance. Whats your story. Ready on what numbers of women especially in victims of violence. Take part and send us your story we are trying always to understand this new culture. Another villa turn out and yet you want to become a citizen. In 4 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 fire wall i want topic today. Most of the world uses products from apple facebook and amazon or. But not china there are 3 homegrown tech giants dominate the industry theyre called by do. And handsome also known as be 80 in china but i do replace a google is for ecommerce and is more popular than facebook is here but thats not all. By twos maps service instead of google maps where you go instead of twitter and tweet chats instead of whats. In china separate providers for almost every Online Service available in the west but theyre far more than just copy. In many fields like Live Streaming. And online payments chinese providers have become global leader. Stockman is a professor at the Hattie School of governance in berlin and an expert on chinas Digital Trends she says uses 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 were. Try it out. We chat alone has more than 1000000000. 00 users a month. Pain is the leading mobile Payment Service it works in supermarkets and at restaurants hardly anyone uses cash in china anymore uses can even but doctor appointments. We chat is like 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 and this Flicks 10 Cent video. Popular
platforms for short videos that last around 15 seconds are flooded with 800000000. 00 visitors each month. The current Market Leader is pythons with a program. Outside of china we know it as to talk. And the other innovation to Video Streaming is on the platform user comments are displayed live as the video player. Things are trending more and more towards Live Streaming the Market Leader. 25000000 active users every month the Company TakesUser Supervision very seriously with the help of ai more than 1000 Schulman Contant Managers Monitor Streams for violations they look for Pornography Depictions of violence and calls to violence but smoking on screen or showing large 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. And enormous fire wall to shield his users from the rest of the Digital World this comes in handy for many chinese path forms because it eliminates foreign competition but it also makes it easier to silence uncomfortable opinions how does it all work it is basically a huge huge vast either Net Connection that is connected by a very few stormers to the Global Internet and. Because all traffic has to go through these servers the Chinese Government is able to block certain
content in China Foreign websites are mostly inaccessible when the content the scene is 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 we could 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 censor and control are like contracts 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 upload a picture to share with a friend its immediately compared to a database if it raises concern there the pictures are simply not sent the whole process is completely automated with Image Recognition software while its technically fascinating the socio political consequences are terrifying she was young says online censorship has massively increased under general secretary xi jinping now the chinese internet its much more a politically quiet place. Its a still commercially very vibrant and culturally still full of activities
innovations. In the last of its Political Action intense of a lens 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 citizens in line with a 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 Propaganda Tool spreads the views of the general secretary of the communist party. Uses must register with a Telephone Number and their real names in order to study political articles to comment little puzzles. 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. Region its like a Testing Ground for total states Available Police officers into whats called the integrated joint operation from the program collects extensive personal data and flags individuals who appear potentially dangerous the organization should. And rights watch analyze 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 enter 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 it similar to twitter and its chinas largest Micro Blogging Platform when they use wave or theyre using it as a means to. Come out with news 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 have kicked off they developed Encryption Software but on the sign they engage in the fight against the heavy workload from 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 business men
like ali baba founded jack mom who compares work to love. 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 if. I was just. Part of this. Is that. I know. Despite various battery 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 Users and platforms alike are quick to censor themselves to avoid sanctions this makes a free and open democratic discussion practically impossible behind satisfy all 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. The middle of the. View is clear as mud hill you want to get close to nature
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