Controlling the internet China style – Features – Al Jazeera English.
Beijing, China – Two visions of China’s campaign to strengthen its influence over the global future of the World Wide Web are being staged in two Chinese cities this week.
One vision offers digital riches to global tech leaders who join forces with the Beijing leadership to offer a tightly controlled Web to China’s online masses.
The other promises prison for anyone accused of using the Internet to challenge Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule.
Leveraging its 630-million-strong platform of Web users to attract some of the planet’s internet elites, the government is staging its first World Internet Conference in the ancient riverside resort of Wuzhen on the east coast.
But simultaneously, in a secret Beijing courtroom, the CCP is launching the trial of a Tiananmen rights activist for allegedly leaking a secret Communist Party diatribe against democracy to an online American magazine.
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