{"id":25,"date":"2007-11-16T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T04:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/visionsofmodernity\/2007\/11\/16\/thwarting-the-golden-shield\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T04:07:18","slug":"thwarting-the-golden-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2007\/11\/16\/thwarting-the-golden-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Thwarting the Golden Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/20071116_golden_shield001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-197\" title=\"Beijing University students get their fix at an Internet cafe\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/20071116_golden_shield001.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing University students get their fix at an Internet cafe\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Oliver August submitted a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/magazine\/15-11\/ff_chinafirewall\/\" target=\"blank\">article<\/a> to Wired on the Chinese state\u2019s imprudent attempts to monitor and filter domestic Internet content. The impractical task continues to disconcert the central government as millions of new users chip away at the \u201cGolden Shield\u201d on a daily basis. Still, nothing can stem the burgeoning flow of digital traffic and desire for unadulterated information access. Adaptive technologies such as proxy servers and encryption constantly spoil attempts to seal outside media from online denizens. The problem will only expand as a younger, tech-savvy generation comes to age. Restricting the Internet only seems to create a stronger urge amongst adolescents to devour the forbidden fruits beyond the \u201cGolden Shield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although this does not mark the eminent demise of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP) iron grip on the Chinese state, the CCP is scrambling to revamp their ministry of disinformation (aka The Central Propaganda Department &#8211; \u4e2d\u5171\u4e2d\u592e\u5ba3\u4f20\u90e8) and methods of pacifying perturbed social groups. Puppet strings amongst the masses are growing taut and sometimes snapping as the Chinese state loses ground in an increasingly influential online world. Bloggers and journalists now regularly flout bans on reporting events blacklisted by the Chinese state. As the masses continue to grow wary of the Chinese state\u2019s official mouthpieces, they actively seek out alternative media outlets both at home and abroad. Even though only a tenth of China\u2019s massive 1.3 billion population consistently access the Internet, these numbers are rising just as fast as China\u2019s breakneck GDP growth.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest hope for this information revolution subsists in the Chinese state\u2019s reliance on new communication technologies to drive economic expansion. They cannot simply unplug the masses. While Burma cut the Internet with ease during recent pro-democracy protests, the Chinese State would bring untold ruin to markets that increasingly depend on the Internet to drive business and communication. It would also represent a massive step backward in desperate attempts to present a polished facade for the world during the Olympics. In any case, the future political battlefield will certainly take place online where everyone can have an equal stake much to the CCP\u2019s dismay.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/security\/magazine\/15-11\/ff_chinafirewall\/\" target=\"blank\">The Great Firewall: China&#8217;s Misguided \u2014 and Futile \u2014 Attempt to Control What Happens Online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver August submitted a great article to Wired on the Chinese state\u2019s imprudent attempts to monitor and filter domestic Internet content. The impractical task continues to disconcert the central government as millions of new users chip away at the \u201cGolden Shield\u201d on a daily basis. Still, nothing can stem the burgeoning flow of digital traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[79,94,174,219,311,358,389],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society_category","tag-china","tag-communication","tag-future","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-society","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}