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Established in 1998, the Great Firewall (GFW) as ChinaNet’s boundary, has shaped Internet users’ perception of internet identity for 20 years – ‘Chinese netizens’ rather ‘Internet users’ beyond the border. Since 2002, GFW has censored by keyword filter and DNS poisoned to block web pages and to display ‘Not Found/ 404′, preventing mainlanders receiving information and blocking voices from the outside.
In 1987, the first e-mail sent from Beijing states: “Across the Great Wall we can reach every corner in the world” or “Chinese netizens” who are going to battle in Facebook, from the first day of connecting to the Internet. Chinese internet users’ self-identity has never been separated from the national identity and the imagination of the border. In 2015, the sovereignty in cyberspace and the boundary of network was established, and both sides of the frontier were inaccessible.
Today, developed and complex ChinaNet is being more thoroughly integrated into reality with smartphones, SmartCity, AI and the Internet of Things. Nowadays, GFW as Internet boundary fosters an environment of multi-layered censorship, which shaping the perspective of Chinese netizens and affecting people’s lives.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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