How China Created Its Own Internet
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- From a single email sent to West Germany to restrictions on Winnie the Pooh and the letter N, this is how the Internet took hold in China.
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hello from China，lol
@Tie Whomnao shithole in your head
Xi join the chat
niubi
Hello from russia 🇷🇺
@@twfrogabuser4971 not white. Pink 🐷
as a Chinese , at beginning, when the google baned , some people worry about it . But right now all people think this is really a smart move . Extremely protectionism. we have our own internet ecosystem right now , and it is much better than other country ,and more , it is reserved talents (many talent back to China join internet industry); database , and even all theses big internet company have own new tech development direction，like baidu(search engine)right now is focus on AI . And for the end user, you can get VPN around 10 bucks a month. and in big city like Beijing or Shanghai , all the tall office building have VPN , and some of them you can automatically connect when you choose it as WiFi. not big deal . some time you have to admit Chinese government is smart .
you are not using the internet. bad for you
@@djf7537 I‘m just using the internet at this moment by VPN，so what？
Agreed. Even if they don't block UA-cam and Facebook, majority of we Chinese will still choose our own internet. I'm also using VPN. It's not a big deal actually.
@@simray7602 哈哈哈，無能狂怒~
Vpn user here Lol
When a man bullies a child, the child must take protection, at least until the child grows up.
Pffft 😂
I get the feeling Bloomberg doesn't like China very much...
There has been no follow up to the China has infiltrated the manufacturing supply chain and put nanochips in all servers of US companies.
They're just reporting the facts for what they are.
The boss of Bloomberg is going to run for the US presidency.
@@MrMentalSoul Part of the facts. They report what they want to report. Remember the hacked chips article from Bloomberg Weekly. That is pure a shame. This is how the propaganda works in the West.
@@MrMentalSoul They just report what They want us to be
I am a Chinese living abroad, last month when I am back for a short business trip , I tried UA-cam in Shenzhen , it was blocked , but an ads of VPN service jumped out unexpectedly . So my opinion, it was not forbidden to use VPN, and in fact it was ok to sell the service and make an ad about it .
Lulu Zheng no, it’s illegal, unless the government permit. It’s just the vpn company get around ways to show u the ads. Try to search vpn in Taobao.
There are multiple people getting arrested by selling VPNs in China.
@@spacefreedom although it's illegal, if you use VPN just personally, the gov would ignore you
Wong Chuck There’s already several vpn seller went to prison. search the news. yes gov will ignore personal use. But the environment is getting worse and the wall is getting higher.
@@spacefreedom using VPN for youtube is ok use it to upload child pornographic thing would get arrested. these dark web VPN is illegal.
Very interesting, keep doing videos about China
Is there a full version of this piece? It felt like a teaser. I was just getting interested and it was over.
Haha its funny to see both western and chinese users are bashing each others' freeedoms xD
Indeed, because there is no true universal freedom. Different bias are doomed to fight. The problem is, that Chinese here know what freedom in both sides mean, yet western people can only imagine what the unfreedom Chinese people have.
The first person who slung a insult in place of a stone was the founder of civilization.
@Cameron I wonder do people in US enjoy freedom except white people? I am afraid not.
@Cameron If you really believe these fake News. It only means your brain was washed, not Xinjiang citizens. Do you understand?
@Cameron It seems you are completely brainwashed. Just go to Xinjiang and experience the real life there. You will find the fact. BTW, do you work with Indian people???
The first time when I heard that 'the Winnie the Pooh is banned in China', I was like, wtf, wait, when, how, where? Then sent some memes to my friend on Wechat and posted pics on social media, waiting for someone to buy me a cup of tea, but disappointedly, nothing happened. I don't understand why this is constantly mentioned by the western media without any proof.
If you're not satisfied with being told by someone else what you can and cannot see on the internet, and want to see the glorious Winnie the Poo memes, consider using our VPN!
VPNs are illegal in China without paperwork
While we don't endorse usage where the jurisdiction doesn't allow for it, it would be fair to say that any VPN that went through the proper channels to get the paperwork done would almost certainly fall within the same rules imposed upon all other software services, which would defeat the purpose. Hypothetically speaking - if you wanted to peer out, or do something outside of the watchful eyes, you'd likely not want to have what you are doing logged and reported back.
@@Mutation666 in fact you have too much freedom to use VPN in China as long as you dont want to destroy your country
@@Mutation666 no. You literally just install it before boarding the plane.
Mutation666 in big city like Beijing or Shanghai , almost all office building have VPN , and sometimes you can even connect automatically when you get in to that building .
China will go from not being connected to the Internet to dominating it. Chinese Internet companies are going global and this trend will accelerate in future.
@sarah razi - yes it’s scary.
Like , tiktok , wechat, qq, Baidu all chinese takeover of the world
China can dominate only if other countries let it. If other countries start blocking your internet firms you will be restricted in your own great wall of china.
while you dont allow freedom for other firms in china vice versa can also be done.
@Honey b. no, usa no.1, fuck off hardline communist pig
China copy cats tbh
Hello from China, save us! just kidding, LOL
We don't want to save you. We just want to make chaos, the bigger the better.
Chinese people complaining about Western bias and internet on UA-cam using a VPN lmao
Lol right
offensively defensive. But it is westerners who started being offensive.
though that's because we have multilateralism in China and are not close-minded like Americans...
China doesn't make it easy for people to access their websites from outside of China either. VPN is the best way to go.
In Iran UA-cam and all social media except Instagram is banned, I am using vpn now
Don't mind anything said from the westerners, They are just jealous.
Chinese young people are not really happy living inside the great fire wall.
Many of them do not care
只要他们西方假新闻看得越多就会越爱国
@日穿钢板 $10 is half of your monthly internet charge.
That is definitely one very large peanut
Most Chinese people dont even use twitter and that trash they use wechat which is so much better and their lives are better than most westerners
Idk why is Vietnam 1 of the the worst internet freedom countries. I don't see any restriction in my daily life but the shitty internet connection. A dude even told me that he thought Vietnamese can't use Facebook. Where the fuck do people get information these days?
because NSA CIA，and all the US political doctrine
😂😂 And China doesn't use a lot of Propaganda?? 😂😂
Lenita A yes we do have it, same as every state that capable, it is a self defense system. However, US political doctrine is a super virus used as a offensive weapon in every regime change.
I don't think I want the Chinese incharge of anything. Global Internet, Ocean security, certainly not privacy.
Welp when I was visiting my grandparents with my family in China I still couldn’t access UA-cam without vpn
who cares... Chinese have the best internet content..
bullshit. I live in China and I can tell you that Chinese internet content SUCKS
because we think UA-cam is used by westers, the contents that UA-cam contained are not suitable to Chinese Watching, because it's full of English or other language instead of Chinese. Though we don't use it, we use the one that we built by ourselves.
Sorry, we can use both
VPNs don't work in most regions of China now, its protocol is easy for GFW to detect and ban them. But as long as it's not physically disconnected from internet, there's ways to bypass the GFW.
Ji Wang what is gfw?
@@mrjean9376 abbreviation for Great Fire Wall
Bullshit . My vpn working fine
Are you serious？你认真的吗？(｡･ω･｡)
it works in the majority of south china bro
Either Countries will respect others options and opinions or create their own sources of internet when dealing with ill will or sabatoge......
Warmongers and greed will lead to war not peace and stability
technically they have an intranet
Or, if there is more people using that intranet than the rest of the world, it is not intranet, but another internet.
we banned telecom Huawei from the US...we're doing the same.
D Po we don't censor information like they do. Many people there have not even heard about what happened in tiananmen square.
Tyler W. LMAO because nothing happened. There was an interview on americans ahout Edward Snowden and most Americans thought he was a traitor LMAO
@@Xtremzer0 Another, Conspiracy nut job.
@@Xtremzer0 We are rather proud of Snowden! A man of integrity and principles!
You ought to try it!
Tiananmon Square atrocities by Chinese Govt against own citizens is China's bloody history!
Tibetan invasion and abuses by China, also!
Dalai Lama is a wise man!
@@lenitaa7938 'Tiananmon' isn't even a think, it's 'Tiananmen', and for your information we witnessed what happened. If you want to call some extremist runts protesters, go ahead, but then you should also call the planners of 9/11 'protesters'. Furthermore, Tibet used to be a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship, where wealth was funneled to the so-called 'Dalai Lama' while people died in poverty, before making such sweeping statements perhaps you should actually talk to someone who lives there. Before talking about 'history', you yourself should read about it.
now we should talk about how north korea *literally* created its own internet
Extremely wise in hindsight, from their point of view, and judging by the Way things r going re internet/social media's capacity for doing harm, also from an objective point of view.
Whatever your value judgement, u habe to say Chicom has shown extrordinary foresight on this issue.
Ah yes, how wise of them to restrict what people can say online.
@@nolin132 : typical empty sloganeering from a fundamentalist position on this issue. I know it s boring to be in the middle. Being fundamentalist on complex issues certainly has appeals. And that s why despite the harm all sorts of fundamentalism has done throughout history and currently, it never lacks recruits. It particularly appeals to the young, the naive, the weak, the insecure, the stupid and the downright nasty.
@@chfgbp6098 You claim to be very enlightened for someone who just typed out a whole paragraph doing nothing but insulting someone who disagreed with you.
Not allowing citizens to criticize their leader is fundamentally wrong. There are literally no exceptions to this.
@@nolin132 : where did i address you directly? I generally do not unless the person attacks me directly. Where do u think u fit in in my General categories? Just out of interest. ;). I claim to be boring. nothing else. No exception? Really? What about during the war? Wwi? Wwii? Any major war facing any Nation? Really no exception? Honestly, i hate to be boring. "Wihtout exception" sounds so much better than "yes but what about...". Lol.
@@chfgbp6098 during a major war is the BEST time to be able to criticize a leader. The American protests to the Vietnam war come to mind- without them the war might have gone on much longer.
If that's the best exception you can think of then I'm definitely sticking to my "no exceptions" idea
Funny how "Freedom House" is based in the US....
funny how islam is religion of peace, but suddenly it opresses and hates others...
From Tanzania here, you should have given more details
kabisa yaani ....mbona sisi hatuna firewall just strict regulation tu
this was a history? you just went from the 80s to now
hey,guys! I’m from China!.Do you think that I need some “freedom”?hhhhhh
well your concept of freedom is way different than western societies apply ... You certainly wouldn't understand unless you live in a western country...I'm from Peru and the time I've spent in China was generally awful people were surely racist to me because of my skin and complexity although there were few nice people who tried to help me at once and these people were the ones who spoke little english.....One concept of freedom is to be able to speak as you feel and say what you think....The times I've talked to chinese citizens they never tried to have an opinion on politics...Other concept related to freedom is private property and space...I felt really threatened when the local station tried to enter by force to my appartment just to take photos of me my signature and my data without asking for consent....In my country as a foreigner you would only need to provide data when needed or when filling official paper.. If it isn't required then you don't provide your data (and also this allows to protect your sensible data from bad people) .... Another concept of freedom is the pursue of truth and be able to question to have criteria to decide by yourself to empower yourself by your own means...Just simply I felt in China as a westerner it was just impossible ..... Because in my country I'm empowered to walk freely and have my own thoughts and express them I surely feel much better and if you think freedom is a value that isn't fundamental to societies to have....then there's a bigger value and that's truth...question yourself if you're able to speak and oppose what you don't like....If you're abe to question the CCP ....life can't be reasonable without truth......Then question yourself why your nationals migrate around the world and establish themselves in other countries ....In my country Peru which is located in latin america we have up o 1.5 million chinese citizens the third largest chinese diaspora outside of Asia (Just behind the US and Canada) and most of them have prosper resaurants but if they were so pleased in China why they moved abroad if they're commoners like most of us?
Love the quality of your videos. Synthwave in the begining gives the vibe.
It's NATIONAL SECURITY! Don't play double standard with us! Only that USA packages better.
2:37 what is the music in background
Come on, we have thousands of ways to across the wall.
cough cough VPN cough cough
当年我们修长城抵御匈奴入侵，今天的伟大防火墙就是为你们准备的。
National postal services should compete with Facebook and google for better security and privacy issues as essentially Facebook / google are internet versions of the old postal services
They cannot compete, any more than apples can compete with pencils. They do different things. For one, postal services carry actual matter, while the internet and similar media only carry data.
In the one area where they are comparable, data delivery, the internet is vastly superior. It delivers more data, much more quickly, at an astronomically lower cost per bit, at an equal or greater level of reliability, to many more potential recipients (you can't get mail if you're homeless, but you can still get internet access).
The downfall of the Internet as we know it just began with Reddit's buyout.
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No KKK, No neo-nazis, no incels, that's all outside the great firewall
China has its own bands of Extremists and Ultra-Nationalists!
Vpn?
VPN user here
Damn, the mongols really did a number on them eh?
@john wick they do
@john wick they exist
@@AzmiMaulanaHamdani in a way ,they dont exist. when was the last time u hear a news from mongols? see? they are there ,but you dont feel their exist.
thats why we have our own big data! not all controlled by google by the U.S. government!
Chinese people are perfectly happy, just like their brother and sisters in North Korea, what is wrong with that?
but unlike North Korea, their salaries have increased exponentially since 1989.
what does Jack Ma think now?
Just wait til global adoption of blockchain..
Lmfao aint gonna happen
What's that gotta do with China??
A cow, grazing on a hillside pasture in Scotland once said to a Chinese tourist as he passed by, "I farted and one day it will make an impact!"
Who knew one hundred years later, that line would seem so profound and ironic when now methane gas released from cows is one of the main causes for the depletion of our ozone layer??
Where’s Pooh? Oh I found him!
In China you can use VPN to connect the world, but VPN is illegal here
elham kun what happen if someone get caught using VPN?
That is bullshit, if VPN is illegal here in China， those youtuber from mainland china should be long arrested.Chinese gov clearly turn a blind eye to this policy. U just dont mess with the politician with VPN, you would be fine!
What about Iran?
And they called it Chinternet.
I have lived in China for 17 years and have never heard of any region in China where VPN cannot be used
It seems that people here have totally forgotten Snowden and project PRISM, he is the hero we dont deserve.
No no no no don't get confused with internet and china's censored internet.
Censorship is not a big deal for China, those people who want the freedom of information will learn how to use VPNs, on the other hand, Chinese Tech-company will satisfy those people who don’t care about politics & freedom of information.
Considering currently situation, China government made a wise decision to establish its own network. Sometimes the policy has to be judged in longer term.
What exactly does it do for anyone?
I agree. You don't give your enemy an easy trojan horse. You make it hard. They learned from what happened in Hong Kong and even Taiwan what an alien culture can do to people. It will turn your own people into sellouts.
What’s with the odd comments defending China’s censorship?
You people sound so similar, better brushup your skills if you want to convince people you’re a genuine human-being.
这都是真的，我贿赂了警察10k人民币，警察才让我上一会网，不说了，我要劳动去了。
youtobe第一纯洁水表已拆 哈哈😄，我交了10块，y个月
说的道理
Under the protection of Uncle Pooh Xi. Yes, you better not complain.
i think indonesia need this firewall, because there so many miss information in the internet make a chaos
笑出声。
So whats the difference between The great Firewall and Europes soon to be Uploadfilter?
The Chinese wall and so-called rules defined here in the us, what are the differences?
Liger Dave the difference is American people value independency and fear control, the Chinese people value unity and fear abandonment and humility
Azeem Iftikhar probably one of the most intellectual summaries of cultural differences I haven't seen for a while. Bravo
What's that N
以后你们会知道great firewall为什么有用了
Why is it usefull? Tell me.
@@KingArthurWs
There are one billion Internet users in China,
There are now less than 0.5% of Chinese users on yt, fb, and Twitter
If one day China says "Okay, we don't need a firewall"
You will see countless angry Chinese netizens who use their keyboards to shred the Western media
that made false news to slander China
@@滑稽部部长 That or people see Taiwan is independent, the one-child policy was a disastrous decision made by their very own government, and there are enough Americans to fight off the Chinese whose opinions are not changed.
we have vpn,so it doesn't matter.
Unique and rare information !
Thank You dear Bloomberg !
I appreciate it !
3:03 Xi Jinping is 'elected'. lol
Until Jinping, the Chinese population could vote to appoint the head of state and other political positions. They had only one party, but many candidates to choose from. Jinping changed that and he will be the incumbent head of state until death or resignation...
Comrade Ma always stands with the party
Isn't Ma a capitalist? Why comrade?
Bloomberg not helping
有趣的话题，我都想知道了呢；
* ;)
FTFY
it works well
if you type "tiananmen square" into a WoW lobby, any chinese players' net will get booted
is that true?
Vanalex yes, try. It
@@shi77e20 I tried it showed pictures of tianen square nothing else
hallo from china!😅😅😅
Hello,是hello！
Why everything has to be in a westerners perspective..... China is more innovative than the west.....😂😂😂
well most inventions came from the west and even russia has sth to say....wat you do in china is reverse engineering and deconstruct western technology so as to build them by yourselves...I'm peruvian and I even know that I got to work in Shenzhen and I saw it by first hand...and whay you do is departing from western technologhy create evolutions of the same products...That's innovation true but you're not discovering new technologies you're just upgrading them to your own desires (and if you tak me about 5G it has also been developed in the west but not on the scale China proposes it)..Obviously that's blattant violation of copyright rules but as far as I'm concerned I've never saw in China any active law enforcement to prevent piracy....
Who know the Five-Blind-Eyed countries.
The brits
UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia
It's amazing how old media can be on youtube but not be a part of it, it actually takes some skill to make this stuff borning, your editing is stuck in the last millennium, the music everything is cookie cutter generic corporate, indistinguishable from every other corporate entity producing content for YT, it could be Buzzfeed, MTV, CNN or the BBC. After watching nothing else but what are essentially gifted amateurs making videos on YT things like this are essentially unwatchable, despite the content being engaging.
Great Wall并不是用来控制和限制言论自由，而是在法律框架下管理互联网，因为中国太容易传谣信谣，容易导致社会动荡和不必要的恐慌
why the N?¿
Suckers blaming another sucker using suck method to mainly block suckers' propaganda.
Because the Chinese knew someday US hightech companies would stop providing service to them, and in that case, they can still operate their own tech business independently. Like kind of situation of today. You have to admit this formidable foresight.
so do we
Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner of the world.
People from America talking about privacy they think that the F.B.I don't spy on them lol
Football Highlights HD it's less about the privacy and more about the censorship of things like tiananmen square.
Use a VPN
Can we get an N in the chat
NNN
What's with the Winnie the Pooh?
Google John Oliver winnie the pooh china. You're welcome.
have you found toilet?
过了今年互联网长城就已经过去24个年头了
total bias.
电信现在有套餐，1500一年，不用翻墙了已经。只不过有些人没去办，问题你办那玩意干嘛呢，我是做外贸没办法。
Guys, are you seriously? 25 yuan or 3 dollar per hour... which year is that? According to your story timeline, it would be around early 199x? Nah, I don't believe that figure, or at least it doesn't cover the diversity of Chinese regions. Because I spent less than 1 dollar/hour for internet around the millennium year (the 3rd one,2000 -- sorry for being poor, though my cousins already had them Cry+LOL) , plus China's per-capita GDP in 1995 was 609.66 USD. Many of us were really poor back the 1990s, people who spent 3 dollar surfing Internet must be super dooooooooper rich (jealous face)! And BTW, China blocked FB in 2009 for some obvious reasons, since then VPN boomed. Show a Chinese face doesn't really help here... Is she really Chinese Chinese?
i think that she is an american...
I won't lie to you, the USA is the place to be
lol no
Down us empire
Xi Jinping is the greatest leader in Chinese history since Deng Xiaoping, and arguably the greatest leader in the modern global stage. To criticise his decisions is acceptable, but to call him names like "Winnie the Pooh" would make you a Donald Trump.
陈龙 That’s only if President Jinping solves the age demographic crisis and the discrimination between Han majority & the ethnic minorities.
The "greatest leader in the modern global stage"? Are you serious? The ignorance of that statement is astounding.
He is better than Trump undoubtedly.
Can’t tell if brainwash or sarcasm...
I don't get it, what's wrong with winnie the pooh? How is that supposed to be offensive?
4:12
Uh. There is Vietnam
Yep if you read history. American actually lost the vietnam war and communist party won in vietnam. :)
@@melonheaded
I am Vietnamese and i knew that
...and then came blockchain...game changer....freedom....honesty....transparency....let’s not forget our strength as a species is our diversity...❤️ love will Trump hate...
Douche. I'd agree if you didnt capitalize that fucking word.
Ummm...............