Tech and Political Methods to Control Internet in China. Business / Technology / Law (4 Registered Users)
3 minute introduction to the topic: ENTER HERE TO WATCH BBC short report on Internet Censorship in China.
- 0:28′ I know we are suppressed but it doesn’t affect me- Wiem, że jesteśmy ograniczani (supress- ograniczać/ głębić/ tłamsić/ dominować) , ale nie ma to na mnie wpływu/ nie martwi mnie
- 0:51 a challenge to American dominance – wyzwanie rzucone amerykańskiej dominacji
- 01:00′- no mention of free Internet – bez wzmianki/ bez informacji o …
- 01:41′ successful blocking – skuteczne blokowanie/ blokada
- 01:56′ block and filter online content – blokować i filtrować treści umieszczane w Internecie
The Guardian article ‘The Great Firewall of China…’ quotes analysis:
- set out vision – przedstawić wizję
- path of development – ścieżka rozwoju
- interference in … – ingerencja w …
- internal affairs – sprawy wewnętrzne
Xi Jinping, set out his vision for the future of China’s internet. “We should respect the right of individual countries to independently choose their own path of cyber-development,” warning against foreign interference in other countries internal affairs’.
- devote resources to … – poświęcić/ przekazać środki na …
- online content – treści umieszczane w Internecie
In recent years, the Chinese leadership has devoted more and more resources to controlling online content.
- perceive as ….- postrzegać jako …
- advance commerce and innovation – rozwijać handel i innowacje
- accelerate political change – przyspieszać zmiany polityczne
- powerful tool – silne/ cenne narzędzie
The challenge for China’s leadership is to maintain what it perceives as the benefits of the internet: advancing commerce and innovation, without letting technology accelerate political change […]. But the internet continues to serve as a powerful tool for citizens seeking to advance social change and human rights.
- supplement with … – uzupełniać … (czymś)
- play by Chinese rules – grać/ postępować według chińskich zasad
Throughout the early 2000s, the Chinese leadership supplemented technology with a set of new regulations designed to ensure that anyone with access to China’s internet played by Chinese rules.
- follow Chinese law – postępować zgodnie z …/ przestrzegać chińskiego prawa
Internet censorship that called for Chinese universities to recruit internet commentators who could guide online discussions in politically acceptable directions and report comments that did not follow Chinese law.
- impede economic growth – negatywnie wpływać/ niszczyć/ hamować wzrost gospodarczy
- unreliable – zawodny/ niewiarygodny
- rank … in the world for speed – zajmować … pozycję na świecie w kategorii/ pod względem szybkości
Growing control over the internet does not come without costs. An internet that does not work efficiently or limits access to information impedes economic growth. China’s internet is unreliable, and ranks 91st in the world for speed. As New Yorker writer Evan Osnos asked in discussing the transformation of the Chinese internet:
“How many countries have an internet connection to the world that is worse than it was a year ago?”
- prize innovation – cenić/ nagradzać innowacyjność
- at risk – w niebezpieczeństwie
Scientific innovation, particularly prized by the Chinese leadership, may also be at risk. After the VPN crackdown, a Chinese biologist published an essay that became popular on social media, entitled Why Do Scientists Need Google? He wrote: ‘If a country wants to make this many scientists take out time from the short duration of their professional lives to research technology for climbing over the Great Firewall and to install and to continually upgrade every kind of software for routers, computers, tablets and mobile devices, no matter that this behaviour wastes a great amount of time; it is all completely ridiculous.’
