Digital Life Behind the Great Firewall
Photo by Jonas Leupe on Unsplash Friends visiting me in Shanghai have often asked me: How do you live without [insert one of many apps services banned in China]? What do you do!? The 1.3 billion+ deprived of Netflix and Google make do with many homegrown alternatives. Thanks to China's strict internet censorship and protectionist policies, many of the services we would consider “universal” are off-limits in China. This prevented the market from being flooded with global compe