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Behind the Great Firewall of China - Michael Anti

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Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet -- "All the servers are in Beijing" -- he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways.

What does Michael Anti mean when he says that, in China, freedom is weird? How is freedom used by the government to control discourse?

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