Name: Behind the Great Firewall of China
Uploaded: 2012-07-30T15:03:53Z
Duration: 18 min 34 s
Description: 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.

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.

Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China

Behind the Great Firewall of China

China's Great Firewall shapes a unique Internet, splitting it into the global Web and 'Chinanet', a digital realm of surveillance.

Despite censorship, China's 500 million netizens forge the country's first public sphere on Weibo, challenging and changing discourse.

Innovative wordplay and puns outmaneuver censorship on Chinese social media, turning 'caoníma' vs. 'héxiè' into symbols of resistance.