China: The SIC BRIC

Great Ted talk titled,  Behind the Great Firewall of China.  China has 500 million internet users so it’s worth a listen.

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.

(click here if video is not observable)

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