Global Governance: China

Slides: Global Governance, China and Wikileaks

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To add: “Reverse-Engineering Chinese Censorship

1. China and the Internet
   • Market Economy while maintaining Party control
   • 1994 Internet in China
   • Rules: Right to govern within borders
   • Rules: Harmful to social order
   • Firewall Project
   • Why China Loves the Internet
   • Social Media Vehicles:
     • Sina Weibo
     • RenRen (China’s social-media pioneer rides wave of success)
     • CIC 2014 China Social Media Landscape: Where to Play & How to Play ?
2. Censorship
   • Top Down
     • Block sites
     • Monitor citizens’ activities
   • Bottom Up
     • No Safe Harbor
     • ISPs are publishers
     • ISPs are licensed
     • Chilling effect
     • 500 “retweets” etc
3. Business Choice
   • Operate within China and follow the rules
   • Operate outside China and risk being blocked, and unavailable
4. Thriving China Internet Businesses
   • Search: Baidu
   • Social Media: RenRen, Sina Weibo
   • Alibaba: eCommerce (Tencent Invests $195M In Logistics Firm China South City To Compete With Alibaba)
   • WeChat (Tencent)
   • Mobile developing
5. Technology
   • Internet traffic travels through 8 specific networks
   • Firewall
   • IP Blocking
   • URL Filtering
   • Keyword filtering (UK Library blocks Hamlet?)
   • Deep packet Inspection
   • Proxy Servers
   • TOR
6. Other Countries
   • United States: NSA (Mozilla Calls on World to Protect Firefox Browser From the NSA)
   • Iran
   • Vietnam (cannot discuss news and politics on social media)
   • Brazil (anonymity)
   • Russia (new copyright law, similar to SOPA)
   • France (Amazon)
   • United Kingdom (pornography filters by default: Porn
     filters block sex education, not all porn, UK study finds)
7. Open or Closed
   • Internet
   • Facebook
   • Mobile
   • Apple (App Store)
   • Terms of Service (Privacy versus Business Model)