Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook ... All banned in China
Internet access is not universal, it is fragmented, more and more localized, restricted or allowed according to the countries and the different political regimes in force.
With its "great cyber-wall", in place for more than ten years now, China embodies this new Internet. A detailed review of some (the list is not exhaustive) services accessible in the West and banned in China.
As much for fostering the development of local Internet groups (such as Tencent, Baidu or Alibaba), as for controlling and restricting freedom of expression, China has chosen for a decade to build a "great cyber-wall", a great "Firewall" managed by the Communist Party and limits access to some of the best known services of the Net.
If you are traveling to China, you will have to do digital abstinence. No snap or Snapchat. You will not find either Instagram (the social network for sharing photos and videos, owned by Facebook). The service has been stalled since the pro-democracy Umbrellas revolution in Hong Kong in 2014.
China inflexible
Same punishment for Twitter (it is true strongly competed at the local level by Weibo) that it did not resist to the media exhibition that was worth to him his (supposed) role played during the Arab Spring.
Gmail users are not better off who are denied access to their webmail. The only solution for them (even if it is risky), use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which hides as far as possible the origin of the Internet connection.
Finally, the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has put himself in the Chinese, that he is undertaken to visit the Middle Kingdom several times, and that he even shake hands with President Xi Jinping, has not changed anything ... Facebook has been banned in China since 2009.
With its "great cyber-wall", in place for more than ten years now, China embodies this new Internet. A detailed review of some (the list is not exhaustive) services accessible in the West and banned in China.
As much for fostering the development of local Internet groups (such as Tencent, Baidu or Alibaba), as for controlling and restricting freedom of expression, China has chosen for a decade to build a "great cyber-wall", a great "Firewall" managed by the Communist Party and limits access to some of the best known services of the Net.
If you are traveling to China, you will have to do digital abstinence. No snap or Snapchat. You will not find either Instagram (the social network for sharing photos and videos, owned by Facebook). The service has been stalled since the pro-democracy Umbrellas revolution in Hong Kong in 2014.
China inflexible
Same punishment for Twitter (it is true strongly competed at the local level by Weibo) that it did not resist to the media exhibition that was worth to him his (supposed) role played during the Arab Spring.
Gmail users are not better off who are denied access to their webmail. The only solution for them (even if it is risky), use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which hides as far as possible the origin of the Internet connection.
Finally, the fact that Mark Zuckerberg has put himself in the Chinese, that he is undertaken to visit the Middle Kingdom several times, and that he even shake hands with President Xi Jinping, has not changed anything ... Facebook has been banned in China since 2009.
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