Hacking for Pleasure, not Politics

March 11, 2013 by Tricia Wang

Editor’s note: Below are excerpts from Tricia’s article on Makeshift, Pleasure Hacking:

Lao Bing is doing what most males at the Internet cafe are doing, have done, or will be doing later on that night—searching for porn. Users across the world are drawn to this…

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The netizens in the underbelly of China

June 17, 2011 by Jason Li

From the excellent The Story of W&L: China’s Great Internet Divide:

I also asked L, and only a handful of his grassroots users own a computer or have a 3G connection. So how could this happen? L smiled and said, internet cafes are not the most effective channel. Next to the factory districts there are convenience stores, where the…

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Hacking for Pleasure, not Politics

The netizens in the underbelly of China