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Author: Hill
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The firewall dispute only allows state officials to "Tweet", not allow people" getting over the wall "., according to a Hong Kong 01 report today Chinese officials, while punishing Internet users for "getting over the wall "", are openly outside the firewall, the report said.
After formally joining the ranks of the Internet in 1998, the Chinese government began to build a censorship system on Internet borders to monitor, review all communications through international gateways and analyse and filter information from networks outside China to access each other, thus creating a "wall" inside and outside China to block network information. "getting over the wall" is to use software such as Virtual Private Network to bypass official firewall settings in China and break through network censorship.
The government has never officially acknowledged the existence of a firewall, but the getting over the wall behavior of Chinese netizens is often authorities punished by the China Internet Security Law.
Similar getting over the wall penalties have been repeated in China, according to the report, especially in 2017 when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology made it clear that it was not allowed to establish or rent its own Virtual Private Network ,Virtual Private Network without the approval of the telecommunications authorities to be formally included in the scope of supervision, and after the implementation of the China Internet Safety Law in that year. Public opinion in China generally believes that, in recent years, as China government tighten control over Virtual Private Network, inventorying network infrastructure and IP addresses, broadband and other network access resources across the country, and expanding the target of punishment from operators to individual users ," the getting over the wall "has become more difficult and requires greater risk of punishment.
A software developer in Shanghai was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined 10,000 yuan for selling Virtual Private Network getting over the wall software accounts on its website and renting servers from overseas suppliers for trespassing and illegally controlling computer information system programs and tools. Guangdong Shaoguan City in 2019 Internet users Zhu for the use of Virtual Private Network by administrative penalties.
With the development of the Chinese Internet, by the end of 2018, the number of Internet users in China had reached 829 million, and the scale of using "getting over the wall" tools "had reached 140 million, that is to say, one in every six Internet users in the mainland of China used Virtual Private Network bypassing China's" Great Firewall "and excluding younger Internet users under the age of 10(4.1 per cent of Chinese Internet users), a proportion that could have declared the long-running" Great Firewall "virtually empty.
Hong Kong 01 says the embarrassment of firewalls in China is more than just the situation of being disintegrated. Instead, it has gradually been exposed to contradictions with China's current development, making it difficult for the system's makers to justify themselves. The mainland fan group "rice circle girl" and the community "emperor bar" getting over the wall launched a fierce online confrontation with netizens who supported the hong kong demonstration during the 2019 hong kong fix storm, which was not only punished but also officially supported.
Another obvious example is that while the official punishment of Internet users "getting over the wall ", the media practitioners and even officials in the Chinese system are openly active outside the" firewall ". Mr hu admitted in one interview that "getting over the wall ", said everyone in the global times could getting over the wall. and that chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs news speaker hua chun-ying and zhao lijian, who have recently played a prominent role in america's public debate, are often active in Twitter insulated from chinese firewalls.
Even if mr hu tries to explain this contradiction between his work and the need for the state, the perception that the privilege under the censorship system is not unacceptable, but that the root causes of this distortion should be eradicated. While China is currently trying to liberalize access to domestic Virtual Private Network foreign capital, it is clear that this pace is difficult to keep up with the "getting over the wall" users "that China has grown domestically.
According to the paper, the getting over the wall was the most common case of similar incidents in china, but it can still attract strong attention in chinese public opinion, indicating that official administrative penalties and public expectations are clearly fractured. This gap, however, can no longer conceal the fact that it is known and increasingly apparent —— do not make "getting over the wall" a privilege.
