Imagine that you find yourself in a world without the Internet. There is no place to upload a photo, no one to share a funny picture with, no place to quickly get the information you need. It seems that today this is almost impossible, but sometimes it is the result of a single decision and a few clicks of a button. The Internet began as an island of freedom developed by enthusiasts, but since then both states and large corporations have learned to manage it. The phrase “the Internet remembers everything” has acquired a second meaning - the content has become under control, the illusion of anonymity has disappeared, and any careless message can create a lot of difficulties for the author. The book tells how China was the first in the world to learn how to manage the Internet and how other countries adopted its experience.