As China’s Internet disappears, ‘we lose parts of our collective memory’

The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased. — YIFAN WU/The New York Times

Chinese people know their country’s Internet is different. There is no Google, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. They use euphemisms online to communicate the things they are not supposed to mention. When their posts and accounts are censored, they accept it with resignation.

They live in a parallel online universe. They know it and even joke about it.