[ **up: [[China]]** ] --- # ‘Great Firewall’ [[China]] “joined the glboal internet” in 1995.[^1] --- > \[In 1996], China’s system of internet controls had been formally put into effect through Article 6 of the Interim Provisions on the Administration of International Networking of Computer Information Networks (计算机信息网络国际联网管理暂行规定). The document essentially mandated the creation of internet access points managed by the government. “No unit or individual may establish or use other channels for international networking on its own,” it read. These regulations would later be used to punish what was called “scaling the wall” (翻墙) — referring to users jumping the controls on the internet known as the “Great Firewall,” a collection of hardware and software systems that separate China from the global internet.[^2] The [[Generation Z#Internet generation 互联网一代|Internet Generation (互联网一代)]] has “grown up with these restrictions”.[^3] --- ## Internet auditors > For internet auditors, shutting down accounts is by no means difficult. The “right to life or death” (生杀大权) of every single account holder is in the hands of young internet auditors on the front lines. They don’t need to report their actions to their superiors. Nothing requires authorization and there is no requirement that they specify a reason or even give it much thought. They can single-handedly erase an account from the internet, just like that.[^4] > The manager in charge of the company’s content audit work gave a PowerPoint presentation running through the basics, with photos and text. They were given a few keywords: 1989, 64, Tiananmen Square, massacre, suppression, the People’s Liberation Army, and so on. They were told that when they encountered these keywords, they should be entirely blocked out, and there could be no exceptions.  > > \[…] > > For Wu Qing, who was born in 1997, this was the first time he heard anything about many of these events and their keywords. Shocked by their implications, he wanted to know more, but his bosses rejected the idea. There was no need for him to know more than that, they said — he just had to be familiar with the keywords.[^5] [^1]: 作者/Qin Shi, ‘The Crimes and Punishments of China’s “Internet Auditors”’, *China Media Project*, 31 October 2024, https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/10/31/the-crimes-and-punishments-of-chinas-internet-auditors/. English translation of an article originally published as: ‘深度报道｜中国互联网审核员的罪与罚’, *莽莽 MANG MANG*, 28 August 2024, https://read.mangmang.run/p/c8d. [^2]: 作者/Qin Shi, ‘The Crimes and Punishments of China’s “Internet Auditors”’, *China Media Project*, 31 October 2024, https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/10/31/the-crimes-and-punishments-of-chinas-internet-auditors/. English translation of an article originally published as: ‘深度报道｜中国互联网审核员的罪与罚’, *莽莽 MANG MANG*, 28 August 2024, https://read.mangmang.run/p/c8d. [^3]: 作者/Qin Shi, ‘The Crimes and Punishments of China’s “Internet Auditors”’, *China Media Project*, 31 October 2024, https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/10/31/the-crimes-and-punishments-of-chinas-internet-auditors/. English translation of an article originally published as: ‘深度报道｜中国互联网审核员的罪与罚’, *莽莽 MANG MANG*, 28 August 2024, https://read.mangmang.run/p/c8d. [^4]: 作者/Qin Shi, ‘The Crimes and Punishments of China’s “Internet Auditors”’, *China Media Project*, 31 October 2024, https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/10/31/the-crimes-and-punishments-of-chinas-internet-auditors/. English translation of an article originally published as: ‘深度报道｜中国互联网审核员的罪与罚’, *莽莽 MANG MANG*, 28 August 2024, https://read.mangmang.run/p/c8d. [^5]: 作者/Qin Shi, ‘The Crimes and Punishments of China’s “Internet Auditors”’, *China Media Project*, 31 October 2024, https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/10/31/the-crimes-and-punishments-of-chinas-internet-auditors/. English translation of an article originally published as: ‘深度报道｜中国互联网审核员的罪与罚’, *莽莽 MANG MANG*, 28 August 2024, https://read.mangmang.run/p/c8d.