Chinese government is strict on their internet because freedom of speech cans potential cause their billions of Chinese people to riot. Whether this is good or not, I am not debating it here. However to clarify what I mean by being strict here are some examples.
1. Certain information is blocked and not accessible from within China.
2. All internet cafes in China require user identification. Chinese government is persistent in cracking down underground internet café. So a person does something illegal will be tracked down.
3. Even big players like Yahoo are obliged to provide private user detail to the Chinese authority. So I am pretty certain the smaller players will have to oblige too.
4. Porn is strictly prohibited in China. People have been caught and sent to prison.
However despite these certain other things are pretty loose. If you open a Chinese website the chances are the site will be full of eye confusing advertisements. Google only allow certain amount of advertisement on one page. Most other company do not allow you to put advertisement from different provides on one page e.g. Google & Yahoo advertisements cannot co-exist.
I am doing a search on google.com and baidu.com on “World In Conflict”. Below on the left is a site I randomly click on from the google’s result compare with the right from baidu.com (a very popular Chinese search engine). You notice there are a lot of female photos along with other stuffs totally irrelevant to PC game.
When you try to download something you won’t find the download button where it is suppose to be. Instead you find yourself tricked into pressing onto a lot of Chinese advertisements. Google has banned websites who put advertisement opposite to a link. This is considered to be a trick and not allow by Google. China’s internet industry is quite a jungle as you can see.
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