In 2000, when China first expressed its desire to control the internet, then-U.S. President Bill
Clinton said: "Controlling the internet would be like nailing jello to a wall." China took this
task very seriously, and in 2006, the so-called "Great Firewall" was completed, which is a
multi-layered system of internet censorship that blocks information from the outside world
and seeks out and suppresses politically sensitive content within China. This means that it is
not possible to connect to the Chinese internet without it being monitored. Additionally,
entering internet chat rooms requires personal information (such as phone numbers and credit
cards), which can be used to identify the source of unwanted comments and sanction users. In
my thesis, I would like to explore China's surveillance systems (censorship, surveillance
technologies, Social credit system, propaganda of public opinion), and also delve into the
reasons why they have been successful and how the Chinese mentality differs from the
Western one.
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