Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.
There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.
You have Google, we have Baidu. You have Twitter, we have Weibo. You have Facebook, we have Renren. You have YouTube, we have Youku and Tudou. The Chinese government blocked every single international Web 2.0 service, and we Chinese copycat every one.
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.
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