This week I attended the inaugural “Chengdu Internet Culture Convention”.
Throughout my time there, meeting people and listening to speeches about the development of Chengdu’s IT infrastructure, I was plagued with a single thought: can Chinese internet culture exist?
In the TED clip above, a Chinese blogger goes into great detail about what the “Chinese internet” entails. Is the formula below accurate?
Chinese internet culture = block each and every international Web 2.0 service, and then clone it for a Chinese audience.
This is something that you will never hear inside China. It takes Chinese people traveling to far-away places like Edinburgh Scotland to make a case such as this, which undermines everything that the Chinese internet claims to be.
it is so true that China senses all the foreign content, and other information which considered normal outside but sensitive in China.
Yes, that is accurate.