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 is the major difference between how the Arab dictators (ex. Mubarek and Ben Ali) censored the Internet and how the Chinese government uses censorship? What effect did this have on their regimes?
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