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Filtering Online Content in China

Filtering Online Content in China
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Author(s): Jyh-An Lee (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 11
Source title: Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kirk St.Amant (East Carolina University, USA)and Sigrid Kelsey (Louisiana State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the Internet filtering mechanism the Chinese government adopted in order to prevent individual users from accessing foreign online content. Based on the case of Internet filtering in China, the author argues that when citizens are regulated by code rather than by the law, they will experience and perceive such code-based controls as natural. From the Chinese case, it should also be noted that the Internet’s effects on politics varies depending upon how its architecture is designed.

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