Belarusian Deputy Proposes To Create “Information Shield” Such As China’s

The MP stat­ed that “a cer­tain part of young peo­ple and the Belaru­sian soci­ety, who had been exposed to the infor­ma­tion­al influ­ence of destruc­tive inter­net resources, took part in protest actions”. She added that “cyber threats are now the pri­ma­ry threat to our soci­ety”. Accord­ing to Vasko, the state should cre­ate “an infor­ma­tion shield that would resist cyber threats”. At the same time, it is pro­posed to fol­low an exam­ple of infor­ma­tion secu­ri­ty of Chi­na, par­tic­u­lar­ly, the Great Fire­wall of Chi­na.

“What is the effect of the iso­lat­ed devel­op­ment of the Chi­nese inter­net? The vast major­i­ty of users no longer need pro­hib­it­ed infor­ma­tion, West­ern resources have ceased to inter­est peo­ple because the coun­try has cre­at­ed its own full-fledged infor­ma­tion ecosys­tem. It is both a com­mu­ni­ca­tion and enter­tain­ment inter­net resource, a social net­work, and a search engine.

In par­al­lel with the cre­ation of such an ‘infor­ma­tion shield’, we can devel­op our own patri­ot­ic con­tent, train blog­gers, and edu­cate new opin­ion lead­ers. This is not a fast and very cost­ly path, but, first­ly, the suc­cess­es in the devel­op­ment of the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na are obvi­ous, and sec­ond­ly, it will cost us more if we don’t do that,” said Vasko.

The Great Fire­wall of Chi­na is the com­bi­na­tion of leg­isla­tive actions and tech­nolo­gies enforced by the People’s Repub­lic of Chi­na to reg­u­late the Inter­net domes­ti­cal­ly. Its role in inter­net cen­sor­ship in Chi­na is to block access to select­ed for­eign web­sites and to slow down cross-bor­der inter­net traf­fic. The effect includes: lim­it­ing access to for­eign infor­ma­tion sources, block­ing for­eign inter­net tools and mobile apps, and requir­ing for­eign com­pa­nies to adapt to domes­tic reg­u­la­tions.