1)CONTROL OVER CITIZENS.

First, China really wants to control what happens with information so that starts with controlling the sources obviously, Wikipedia is banned for the most part. Basically, everything is up there and so are many of the most influential foreign news websites including the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Reuters and so on.

TV shows and movies are carefully selected as well as services like Netflix, for example, can’t operate on their own and usually have to license their content to local competitors who can then cherry-pick and modify the shows to tweak them to the liking of the censors.

Only 34 foreign movies a year can make it to Chinese cinemas and they’re usually superhero or cartoon stuff and most of them don’t have historical or political topics, of course, shows and movies that expose the weaknesses of foreign political systems are approved.

Popular blogging platforms like blogger and YouTube where anyone can just write or make videos about whatever they want are also banned too. In other words, foreign sources of information and entertainment are very carefully selected but controlling the sources is of course not enough.

The government also controls how people can access them. Google and other search engines such as DuckDuckGo are completely banned from China as they refuse to censor their search results and while some competitors like Bing are still present, their search results are completely filtered.

2) PROTECTIONISM.



The idea here is that China wants to develop its own tech sector instead of letting foreign companies compete in the market. What often happens is that when a new technology emerges somewhere, it enters China with high hopes, local Chinese competitors emergent start providing a similar service and then the government either bans or harasses the foreign company enough for it to leave the market leaving behind only the Chinese competitors.

The Chinese market, unlike most others around the world, is large and competitive enough to ensure that those competitors actually have to be just as fierce as their global competitors so unlike in most other isolated markets, their tech companies don’t actually fall behind even in their isolation.

This type of protectionism is generally believed to be against the rules of our current global trade system including the world’s trade organization which China is a part of, but so far the country has simply gotten away with protecting their own companies against foreign competitors in the tech sector but also demanding free trade access to foreign markets when it suits them. For example, in the case of electronic exports.

3) MILITARY CONTROL.



The last reason for censorship is one which anyone rarely talks about. The thing is tech companies like Google and Facebook have so much information that they can be used as weapons.

Think about this, most US-based companies know everything their consumers talk about, reads or buy and have access to their passwords and their real-time locations on their smartphones and much more.

Now China and the US on paper aren’t currently at war with each other but there’s a lot of talk about a cyber war going on already and I think nobody could confidently say that the armed conflict can be avoided forever.

If it can’t, tech companies that know everything about everyone in a country could be pretty dangerous. We have seen with the Snowden leaks that the U.S likes to use its technological dominance to spy even on its own allies so no doubt they would use their leverage against foreign hostile nations too.

CONCLUSION.

Those are the three main reasons. Controlling the flow of information so that the party isn’t challenged, protectionism so that China can build up its own tech sector instead of having to rely on a foreign one and avoiding exposure to foreign tech companies that might be problematic in the case of international conflict. Whether you find those reasons morally justifiable or not, you can’t really deny that they work.

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Excellertemmie:
I am not understanding this Op, but there are many chinese guys who have youtube channel where they post their stuff, so u mean they are doing it illegally or what

YouTube can still be accessed in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It could also be accessed in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, and specific hotels.

Even though YouTube is blocked under the Great Firewall, many Chinese media including CCTV have their official YouTube account. In spite of the ban, Alexa ranks YouTube as the 11th most visited website in China.

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Excellertemmie:
I am not understanding this Op, but there are many chinese guys who have youtube channel where they post their stuff, so u mean they are doing it illegally or what

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ElRapido:
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