# Behind the Great Firewall of China

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2012
- Speaker: Michael Anti
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_anti_behind_the_great_firewall_of_china)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet -- "All the servers are in Beijing" -- he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways.

## Lectures

1. [Behind the Great Firewall of China](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/michael_anti_behind_the_great_firewall_of_china/22a1375f4116), 19 min (TED's player)