As China’s Internet Disappears, ‘We Lose Parts of Our Collective Memory’
The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased
By Li Yuan
“The Chinese internet is collapsing at an accelerating pace,” the headline said. Predictably, the post itself was soon censored.
“We used to believe that the internet had a memory,” He Jiayan, a blogger who writes about successful businesspeople, wrote in the post. “But we didn’t realize that this memory is like that of a goldfish.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/business/china-internet-censorship.html
u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/06/04/we-lose-parts-of-our-collective-identity/
www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/06/05/as-chinas-internet-disappears-we-lose-parts-of-our-collective-memory