Sunday, April 29, 2007

restrictions on China's internet

It seems that China doesn't want it's citizens to view "unhealthy" content on the internet. The Communist Party is trying to control the internet for the safety and health of their citizens supposedly. They feel that there is too much incorrect propaganda on the internet that their citizens should be restricted when viewing it. It's not that they don't trust their citizen's, it's just that the internet is unpure and the citizens should not have to view false or unpure things.

This is not the first time that the president of China has attempted to reign over the internet. The last meeting was in January and there were meetings that occured before that. President Hu is trying get tighter controls on the youth of China in order to keep rebellion from happening. In addition to simply trying to put restrictions on the internet, it seems that big investors like Google and Yahoo
have been lending a helping hand to China's censors.

I was shocked to find out that the government already has a huge system of filters and censorship that blocks many users from sites that offer uncensored opinion and news! They claim they are doing this to keep the people safe and unharmed but they are really just trying to brainwash all the people of China.

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