{"id":40150,"date":"2018-11-04T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40150"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:43:09","slug":"heres-chinas-massive-plan-to-retool-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40150","title":{"rendered":"Here’s China\u2019s massive plan to retool the web"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The most ambitious project of mass control is the country’s \u201csocial credit\u201d system. All Chinese citizens will receive a numerical score reflecting their \u201ctrustworthiness.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A”clap for Xi Jingping.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The following is adapted from<\/em> LikeWar<\/a> by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, a book by two defense experts\u2014one of which is the founder of the Eastern Arsenal blog at<\/em> Popular Science \u2014about how the Internet has become a new kind of battleground, following a new set of rules that we all need to learn.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAcross the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

So read the first email ever sent from the People\u2019s Republic of China, zipping 4,500 miles from Beijing to Berlin. The year was 1987. Chinese scientists celebrated as their ancient nation officially joined the new global internet.\u2028 As the Internet evolved from a place for scientists to a place for all netizens, its use in China gradually grew\u2014then exploded. In 1996, there were just 40,000 people online in China; by 1999, there were 4 million. In 2008, China passed the United States in number of active internet users: 253 million. Today, that figure has tripled again to nearly 800 million (over a quarter of all the world\u2019s people online).<\/p>\n

It was also clear from the beginning that for the citizens of the People\u2019s Republic of China, the internet would not be\u2014could not be \u2014the freewheeling, crypto-libertarian paradise pitched by its American inventors. The country\u2019s modern history is defined by two critical periods: a century\u2019s worth of embarrassment, invasion, and exploitation by outside nations, and a subsequent series of revolutions that unleashed a blend of communism and Chinese nationalism.<\/p>\n

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Here’s China\u2019s massive plan to retool the web The most ambitious project of mass control is the country’s \u201csocial credit\u201d system. All Chinese citizens will receive a numerical score reflecting their \u201ctrustworthiness.” A”clap for Xi Jingping.” CNBC Screenshot The following is adapted from LikeWar by P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, a book by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,22789,1339,22788,22793,22792,22790,22791,3680],"class_list":["post-40150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-china","tag-emerson-brooking","tag-internet","tag-p-w-singer","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-popular-science","tag-social-credit-system","tag-trustworthiness","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40151,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40150\/revisions\/40151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}