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How China is creating a new kind of internet

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How China built its own internet

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Over the last 40 years, the Chinese Communist Party has been constructing the world’s first and most sophisticated digital border, called the Great Firewall of China. It blocks materials that the Chinese government doesn’t want its population to see and is a major reason why the Party has survived in the internet age. Over the decades, China has increased the sophistication of its wall … and created more security inside it. This video explains why many believed the internet would unleash democracy in China. And how China proved them all wrong.

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