chapotraphouse

I mean honestly, do you think the average person in China would look at 4chan or Reddit and think to themselves, "Wow, these westerners are such great thinkers, with such refined tastes, and bursting with joy and freedom in their hearts! We need to make China like that!"

China looks at American internet and sees horny anime memes, jokes about how much life sucks, and constant, petty, and inscrutable culture war battles. It's like the knights in Monty Python visiting Camelot. "Let's not go to Facebook, it is a silly place."

I think China should open the great firewall slowly, starting with trusted and respectable sources of news, like Vimeo and the Pornhub comment sections, but keeping out suspicious and shady websites, like the New Yorker and the Washington Post.