{"id":106114,"date":"2026-02-18T12:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:04:15","slug":"lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China\u2019s Great Firewall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#episode-transcript\"><i>View the full episode transcript.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you going through \u201ca very Chinese time in your life\u201d? If so, maybe you\u2019re one of the many American social media users who\u2019ve jumped on the Chinamaxxing trend (or\u2026you\u2019re Chinese). But it\u2019s more than just slippers in the house and hot water at breakfast \u2014 as Western netizens experience increased surveillance and censorship across internet platforms, they are ironically turning to one of the most repressive regimes in the world for respite. On today\u2019s episode, Morgan talks to Yi-Ling Liu, author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/708614\/the-wall-dancers-by-yi-ling-liu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about the Chinese government\u2019s history of internet censorship, how online creativity has still flourished inside China\u2019s \u201cwalled garden,\u201d and what Americans have to learn from our neighbors in the East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ --><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5900146793\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Reading\/Listening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want to give us feedback on the show? Shoot us an email at <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2026\/02\/18\/lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall\/mailto:CloseAllTabs@KQED.org\">CloseAllTabs@KQED.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Follow us on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/closealltabspod\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2060Instagram\u2060<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@closealltabs\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2060TikTok\u2060<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2026\/02\/18\/lessons-for-u-s-netizens-from-behind-chinas-great-firewall\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View the full episode transcript. Are you going through \u201ca very Chinese time in your life\u201d? If so, maybe you\u2019re one of the many American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}