A whole generation of Chinese grew up on a completely different Internet than the traditional Internet, because the Chinese government has over the last 10 years closed many of the world's major foreign sites.

The New York Times reported in a lengthy report on China, China and Internet censorship that authorities have been blocking over the past decade Google, Facebook, Twitter, Entangram, New York Times, Chinese Wikipedia and many others.

The results of this policy have emerged now that many Chinese have no idea of ​​the main sites mentioned, which created a barrier between them and the rest of the world, and many do not want to know the ban on the Internet by the authorities of their country, allowing China to build an alternative value system Competing for Western liberal democracy.

Expectations of its spread
The Chinese approach is expected to spread throughout the world. Beijing is exporting Internet restrictions to other countries such as Vietnam, Tanzania and Ethiopia.

This result contradicts what many in the West had expected from the Internet. In 2000, former US President Bill Clinton predicted that China would become a more open society such as the United States, saying in a single word that the new century would see the spread of freedom on mobile phones and telecommunications networks.

The report pointed out that the hope of Western Internet giants to get a part of the huge Chinese market has become increasingly elusive, as the Chinese Communist Party has clearly stated that it continues in the path of ideological control under the rule of Chinese President Chi Jinping.

The Chinese Internet Regulatory Authority announced that it had closed more than 3,000 websites in the first half of this year.

Indifference
Even if western applications and sites are allowed to enter China, it is expected to be met with indifference by young Chinese, the report said.

A large study conducted by the Beijing Chinese Universities and Stanford University this year showed that college students do not care to even access sensitive political information that is not banned. The study concluded that Chinese censorship is effective, not because the authorities have made it difficult to access sensitive information, but because it has created an environment in which citizens do not need this information in the first place.

In March, a broad survey also showed that 80% of Internet users believe that their country is at its best, or that it is better every day. Nearly 80% say they are either very optimistic or very optimistic about their future.

"China is a developing country and in need of social stability", a line that all official media and school textbooks have been repeating all along, the report said.