Every year for a decade, Wuzhen comes alive for a few days in the fall. This small water town with its postcard canals about a hundred kilometers west of Shanghai is hosting the “World Internet Conference”. Chinese executives responsible for cyberspace receive Chinese and foreign tech giants and officials in charge of digital technology from all over the world. This is to promote the regime’s vision of how the Web should be managed and to emphasize a particular concept, “cyber sovereignty”. It opposes the vision of a universally open Internet, a place for the free circulation of information that the Chinese government sees as a characteristic of Western societies and a potential threat to its control. Even if it has continued to denounce in recent months the “bandit logic” of the United States in wanting to suspend Tiktok since the application met with success, China considers that its own vision is reinforced, legitimized, by the decision of the American power to also resort to blocking foreign social networks. The ban has been in effect since Saturday January 18 at the end of the day. In the weeks preceding the adoption in April 2024 by the American Congress of the law threatening to block Tiktok if its Chinese parent company Bytedance refused to sell it, the official press and social networks were covered with articles and comments denouncing American double standards. “Let me tell you a joke: American society is liberal and democratic and it is a full market economy,” wrote in March 2024 a user of Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of times. Read also | Article reserved for our subscribers “In the China – United States battle around TikTok, bad faith is the thing best shared” Read later In closed circuit Of course, Chinese propaganda never insists on the fact that Beijing has these last two decades blocked all foreign social networks, allowing only local champions such as WeChat and Douyin, the original version of Tiktok, to operate. As early as 2009, China made Facebook and Twitter inaccessible on its territory. In 2010, Chinese citizens laid flowers in front of Google’s local headquarters when the search engine, refusing to be censored, announced it was leaving the country while the then US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was doing so. fight for freedom of information on the Internet a key point of American diplomacy. You have 53.91% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-01-19 11:30:20
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