The first part is about the Internet and China, and later I will describe in a second part, why anti says that Japan thoroughly by the complete ignoring of the Chinese blogosphere China misunderstand. ;
Twitter revives China's civil society
The Star Chinese blogger and Twitterer says Michael Anti, Tokyo, Twitter as China gives its view, the first time in history, complete freedom of speech.
Educated as China watchers (long time ago), I am always glad to learn about new China. As excitation source turned out, Michael Anti, the fourth-most with over 30,000 followers Followed Twitterer the People's Republic of China ( twitter.com / mranti ). Zhao Jing, he's real name, is currently on for two months in Japan and relativized some of my prejudices. From exile, I had my Japanese in recent years gained the impression that China's government furnishes proof of how well the Internet is supposedly oh-so-democratic mind-control. That seems to me to be still so, but just it does not work nearly complete, showed anti. His thesis: The Internet and especially through Twitter is a "very vibrant civil society" emerged.
His statement surprised. Tweet For only 100,000 Chinese. But the few to develop a large effect because they are part of the information elite of the country and are often journalists themselves. In addition, is the nature of Twitter, with its limitation to 140 characters in China thanks to the writing system is not the text of a short-but a real news service. 140 Chinese characters are already a little text, 140 attacks in letters only one set.
have often made Twitter so, especially by the Chinese government suppressed history, especially in foreign, but also sometimes bring in Chinese newspapers. An example is the wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xia, through its Twitter account twitter.com/liuxia64 the World squealed as soon as it is notified by the state power under pressure. And flight safety again found their tweets on BBC . A demo for the artist Ai Weiwei, the first demonstration near Tiananmen Square since the bloody suppression of the democracy movement, even managed, thanks to Twitter in the English-language edition of Global Times a mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China, including tweeted image. The censors do not have the resources to follow tweets every minute, Anti explains the success: "Twitter is the first national platform for 100 percent freedom of speech in China's history."
One notices, anti is a journalist. He loves the strong, exaggerated quote. Quite so cozy it is in China of course not. The single is already Twitterant still a risk that the police knocking at his door, when the authorities do not like a tweet admits anti. Because "follow" next to the fans, the censors the most audacious bloggers. But seen on the whole can be understood Antis thought again. Because unfortunately, (as seen from the perspective of state power), the mishap in question is already done even if the unpopular Tweet can be closed promptly. Finally, today minutes for the pandemic infection Netizen enough with the unhealthy thinking.
is partly responsible for the character of the Chinese blog-sphere, which is very different from that of other countries. Ideally, the Internet is seen in the U.S., the medium of the anti-mainstream, in Japan the private gossip. In China, however, is the blogosphere the arena of professional journalists from the mainstream media, which like to publish stories on the Internet, which they in their leaves do not get rid of Anti explains.
The cause is China's media history, so anti. As the corporate media in 2000, started their expansion, they found no qualified journalists. Because the textbooks of journalism schools were "crap". So the editors hired in their distress "Blogger" in the first hour as anti, who demonstrated by their work on the Internet that they can write. "I really am a geek," Anti flirts with his past. The result: journalism and blogging are merged into China from the beginning. "We can not separate the Internet and the media," said Anti. For the State of the Internet, hence the "battlefield" is. However, it is for anti- "The place of civil society."
The Internet will change the thinking of the Chinese, he predicts. 1. the new generation of speech regarded as inherent right. "Even nationalists want freedom of speech, as there is consensus." 2 The young netizens consider "information" as their property and therefore could also Google in conflict with the Chinese government defended. 3. feel more and more people and the party "participatory democracy" as well. The social contract looks like this: The party granted quite a lot of individual freedoms and especially prosperity growth, for the citizens to give to organize themselves politically. Infringement is sometimes punished with imprisonment, see Liu Xiaobo.
Anti therefore warns us in an interesting turning his argument against hope because of the change on the democratization of China in the Western sense. Participatory democracy is not equal to representative democracy, with popularly elected leaders, says anti. "It will not go towards representative democracy."
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