China just has a local Intranet and when you are lucky (and increasingly luckier every year) you can access some small websites on the Internet.

No it's not an intranet. Chinese people still connect to the internet.

They've got a firewall around their whole country, not unlike any firewall a corporation might put up to prevent their employees from accessing content the company disagrees with (like viewing pornography/4chan from the network).

Sounds like you need educating on the differences.

>> China just has a local Intranet and when you are lucky (and increasingly luckier every year) you can access some small websites on the Internet.

> They've got a firewall around their whole country, not unlike any firewall a corporation might put up to prevent their employees from accessing content the company disagrees with (like viewing pornography/4chan from the network).

I kinda think you just made his point for him. The corporate networks that are walled off in that way are often called "intranets."

Also, local Chinese websites are often significantly walled off from the rest of the internet (though through local-phone-number registration requirements, not firewall rules).

"local-phone-number registration requirements" because it's required that it's should be easy to find the real person(account->phone number->id number) for all user generated content

Oh god first line of Wikipedia reads: 'An intranet is a private network accessible only to an organization's staff.'

Please tell me how www.baidu.com is only accessible within China.

Please don’t equate mass state surveillance and censorship with blocking Xtube from the office.

My point was addressing that he was incorrect about what an 'intranet' is. Read between the lines.

You're right that they do mass state surveillance though.

They have a firewall so strict that it blocks almost the totality of non-Chinese content, they don't have internet access. What they suggest on this article are hacks which might work if you are lucky, the CCP is blocking more and more every year so don't expect any of these hacks to work for long.