A generation grows up in China without Google, Facebook or Twitter

Over the past decade, China has blocked Google, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram

Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies. He plans to study chemistry in Canada when he goes to college in 2020. Wei is typical of Chinese teenagers in another way, too: He has never heard of Google or Twitter. He once heard of Facebook, though. It is “maybe like Baidu?” he asked one recent afternoon, referring to China’s dominant search engine.
 
A generation of Chinese is coming of age with an internet that is distinctively different from the rest of the web. Over the past decade,