In the world of technology, one would expect developed economies to be on the forefront of ensuring that their citizens are well informed with more freedom of expression as compared to other countries just coming out of the woods.
China, the second force after the United States is working hard to leave its footprints in Africa through massive loans and taking part in mega infrastructural projects aimed at “bettering the lives of Africans.” A lie.
A school of thought has that China is in the process of using the loans given to poor African countries to colonize them as a result of “paying themselves.”
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Even as China strives to be the Big Brother in Africa, she seems to be intolerant to criticism, open-mindedness and giving her own people full freedom of expression. In terms of expression, some African countries such as Kenya are way better than Beijing.
Did you know that more than 50 websites are banned in China? Yes. Using certain websites in China is illegal and could land one either in a detention camp or jail.
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Here are the websites that are banned in China:
- Google search
- Yahoo
- YouTube
- Wikipedia (Chinese)
- Netflix
- Tumblr
- BBC
- New York Times
- Bloomberg
- Nikkei
- The Independent
- ABC Australia
- Reuters
- WSJ
- TIME
- The Economist
- France 24
- LeMonde
- Spiegel
- Bing
- Blogpost
- Dailymotion
- Pirate Bay
- Dropbox
- Vimeo
- Archive.org
- Scribd
- Flickr
- Nikkei
- Gmail
- Google Maps
- Google Docs
- Quora
- Viber
- Medium
- Goodreads
- HBO
- Sony Music
- DeviantArt
- BigCommerce
- SlideShare
- Periscope
- DuckDuckGo
- AllMovie
- Technorati
- Ustream
Although some people in China still manage to use the banned websites, those found are arrested and face stiff punishments. The Chinese government has developed platforms that citizens can use while online so that it can monitor everything that one does.
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