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Ten ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours

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Pros: there's less spam, It's based on IPv6, it's safer, it's growing faster

Cons: it's slower, blackouts are common, it's monitored, access to foreign web sites is limited, it's censored, there's less porn
  • added May 15, 2008
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18 responses // Ten ways the Chinese Internet is different from yours

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    less porn, are you crazy!

    keeesha
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    How is they have so much less porn, when all the best bootleg porn is pressed to discs comes from China?

    96thdayofrage
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    So if the internet is roughly 85% porn does this mean they are only getting 15% of the web?!?

    clarity_kat
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    I read somewhere that 1-5% of websites are porn. . .

    CarlosIsDown
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    no spam, or no free speach... let me think that one over, I can't decide, that's a tough one!

    gimp15
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    No porn AND it's slower? HOW UNCIVILIZED.

    SpeedingUptoStop
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    You would think the lack of porn would make it faster.

    nickwe3d
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    Less porn? Count me out!

    rabidlemur
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    thats the complete opposite of AMERICAS internet.

    currentkid
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    More chinese.....less english...

    ipodrulz
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    I still laugh whenever I hear somebody call China a communist nation. Karl Marx or Lenin would go Gojira on their ass if they found out what they were doing to their beloved communism. Authoritarian semi-capitalism seems more like it.

    Dmitri_Molotov
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    boooo less porn...booooo

    keeshii768
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    I WOULDN'T KNOW IF I DON'T SPEAK CHINESS. DAH!

    natdagod
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    Lack of porn has clearly touched a nerve (or 2 or 3)...but it seems inevitable that the insanely tight governmental grip there will have to loosen (and this metaphor has nothing to do with porn or the lack of).

    24French
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    In China everything is monitored...

    Perry8331
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    Aw shucks...How can I live without porn? :/

    MissJonaLyn
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    Not going over there any time soon..

    romanista
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    I'm surprised there is actually as much 'free' surfing as there is when it remains that China is under Communist rule.
    Even with a large pinch of quasi-capitalism thrown in to help tame the bitter flavor ever present in Communist nations, it does little to remove the one constant: your life is NEVER free from government scrutiny; more evident when compared to today's America, albeit a little less insidious than in the People's Republic of China.

    UrbanExodus

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