My poor, sweet, ugly, shocking, beautiful interwebs

[Scythe13]

(18 November 2012, 22:26)CovertRunning Wrote: I'm a writer in my spare time and one of the things in a fictional universe I've created is that the internet (called nexus) is essentially 'planned' and is much more controlled so you can only access content within nations, to actually see the 'internet' in other parts of the globe you have to pass through 'gateways'. If you want to go through these without identifying yourself you need a 'hacker' etc etc.

You mean like in China?

I've lived with LOADS of Chinese people (uni campus, house shares, that kind of thing) and they all joke about the Great FireWall of China. It's much bigger than the original Great Wall of China. Websites are shutdown and people are often arrested for creating a website. They have VERY limited access to foreign sites, including Facebook! They have a Chinese version of Facebook that forces all their posts to be checked by the governmental internet regulation team. It's a crazy thing.

Some people from the boarders are able to access external sites, but they are often arrested for doing so!