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William Bao Bean: China’s one child policy and the Internet
I discussed the impact of China’s one child policy on the Internet with William Bao Bean of Softbank China & India.Growing up in a one-child household makes Chinese children lonely and keen to connect, hence the obsessive use of the Internet by China’s young generation. Chinese, Bean says in this 2-minute video, are much more likely to connect with people than their counterparts in other nations.I would add to the incentives for going online the censorship of state-owned media. The low quality of the competition gives the Internet an added impetus.The implications for Internet use should be clear: Not only are there more people using the Internet in China than any other nation, but they use it with a passion seen in few other places.
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