Twitter and Facebook are banned in China, because these social tools are deemed sensitive by China government. To be honest, Chinese people do not want Twitter and Facebook are banned in China, because, they want to know the world, furthermore, these social tools can bring other countries people truly know about China.
Firstly, there are only four countries in the world cannot use Facebook: Cuba, Iran, North Korea and China. China has the largest population and the third large acreage country in the world, so why does China ban these social tools? Is China having a problem with these social tools? With much speculation, this topic has become a very intriguing argument. At the beginning, in China people could log into Facebook before 2008, but after 2008, something happened, let’s look back at what happened in 2008.
“A-28- year old construction engineer, Maher heads the April 6 youth movement, which began as a Facebook group in spring 2008 to support a workers’ strike in a northern industrial town in Egypt. This youth opposition coalition was the main organizing force behind last week’s demonstration. Their demands included the departure of the interior minister, an end to the restrictive emergency law, and a rise in the minimum wage. The member, who include many young well-educated Egyptians, have shown a greater willingness than others to risk arrest and start public protests. The group uses popular social websites to alert its networks about police activity and organize demonstration.”(Branch of the China Daily)
Since the 2008 incident Facebook, Twitter and other websites are banned by China government so far. So, Facebook, Twitter and several websites lead to another problem, this problem should be political issues. The reason behind the political issue is because China and America have a totally different political systems and institutions. China is a socialist country, after the end of the Second World War, the communist party established the new China, China is the third largest country in the world, so China has a lot of different political systems and institutions before the Second World War.
Today in the 21st century, China communist party orders to reinforce the communist system, China communist party starts with the internet, education and entertainment to control citizen. Because so far in China has a lot of separatists want to separate China, for example: Tibetan separatists, Taiwan separatists and Xinjiang separatists, they are still trying to agitate China citizens to help them to separate China.
The article named “spring awakening” wrote by Jose Vargas describes the impact of social media in converting the mentality of young Egyptian generations into bold and defend their inalienable rights as a citizen. This article justifies how social media can mobilize a tremendous number of people to stand up for their rights. The reasons that inspire my emotion is emerging of “Wael Ghonim” as a legendary vocal figure of action for change, revelation of social media as earthquake for change, and fundamental soci-political change.
Everyday people in China are suffering from their government. From being wrongly accused to being executed for petty crimes. In a country where you cannot speak your opinions, talk poorly about government officials, speak about Chinese communist failures, or even browse the internet freely. China has kept its citizens in the void. One example is the great firewall of china, which sensors most social media and other sites. This essay will go into some individual stories of the Chinese government's unfair social injustices towards its people.
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The CCP can no longer keep such a tight grasp on society. The regime claims people who protest against them are mentally ill and depending on what the protesters status is can make false accusations and false charges stick. Those who support the CCP publicly with their work are also protested against. It can be assumed that politics is one key issue that divides China.
According to an article by Rebecca MacKinnon, “While the Chinese government has supported the development of the Internet as a tool for business, entertainment, education, and information exchange, it has succeeded in preventing people from using the Internet to organize any kind of viable political opposition. Balancing openness with control has been the central challenge for the Chinese Communist Party since Deng Xiaoping began his policy of “reform and opening up” in 1979.” Clearly, the normal Chinese citizen would be afraid to just browse the Internet because of the filters and possible risks involved. “One student blogger in China, pen-named “Undersound” estimated that only about five percent of the people he knows actually use proxy servers to access blocked websites. Most of his classmates...
The Great Firewall of China censors innumerable amounts of content for an assortment of reasons. The most common objective is to silence criticism of the Chinese government and to prevent ideologies contrary to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policies from gaining momentum. The Chinese government goes beyond just blocking individual websites however, using “techniques to scan URLs and web page content for blacklisted keywords like ‘Tiananmen’ and block such traffic” (Hoffman). Due to this, they most often target social media platforms, virtual commercial exchange markets, and information-based registers. To compensate they have developed their own social networking sites, search engines, and directories, completely controlled by the Chinese government, allowing them the abi...
We want freedom, we want our voice to be heard. Through social media we try to stay connected with people. However our governments fear the social media because it can lead to revolutions like the one in Egypt. Our governments use internet censorship to protect themselves. Although some of use try to oppose it, there is a population that is fine with it. That is the connection of internet censorship with modern day politics. It directly affects the way people look at their government and their regime and their political views. The three countries I talked about use internet censorship however there are differences between them. North Korea is the most extremist country and it is maybe an example of what China and Turkey might be like one day. These countries are all related to each other somehow and
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works diligently to overthrow every attempt at placing some sort of filter or censorship requirements on the internet. They believe that the things censored are protected by the constitution. The court case ALA v. Pataki (1997) held that internet users must be protected from, “inconsistent legislation that, taken to its most extreme, could paralyze development of the internet altogether” (ACLU, 2017). Our freedom of speech is not absolute, so restricting where people are able to get access to these materials does not affect one’s right to speak freely, rather where they speak
Twenty years after the events of 1989, the grip of Communist rule has not loosened for the people of China. From the point that communism formed in China forward, students have continually been persecuted for speaking their beliefs about their government. A hope for the people was that when footage of the madness of June 4th, 1989 reached the world, the mechanism of political reform inside China would be unstoppable. This hope, and the millions of hopes of an entire people were snuffed out with what was left of their freedom and, for many, their lives. More than two decades afterward, the tight control of the citizens of the People’s Republic of China remains, and the traditional freedom of e...
“Chinese citizens fully enjoy freedom of speech on the Internet. The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China confers on Chinese citizens the right to free speech. With their right to freedom of speech on the Internet protected by the law, they can voice their opinions in various ways on the Internet.”(Information Office, PRC)
Facebook is a social network that lets you post anything you want, like; statuses, pictures, videos. You can see what your friends are doing just by what they post and they can do the same for you. Twitter is about the same when it comes to sharing posts, pictures, etc. but you have a limit of characters for each tweet you send.. These social networks take over a persons’ life because of how much they are on it; but this is only one of few major problems with that come with these networks. There have been cases when people libel one another, trying to ruin each other’s lives. There are teenagers bullying other teenagers on these networks and we call it cyberbullying. Two other major problems are invasion of a person’s privacy and Facebook tracking your every move.
The provocative messages in his feed support his campaign for a free and civilized Chinese society. In China, Weiwei has spent time in jail, and was not allowed by the government to leave Beijing for a year. He now cannot travel without official permission; however, Weiwei is able to use the Internet to a certain degree to circumvent authorities. As a result, he has become a symbol of the struggle for human rights in China. He uses any medium – sculpture, ready-mades, photography, performance, architecture, blogs, and especially tweets – to deliver his message. He utilizes the Internet to open up the doors to his audiences. Weiwei tweets messages in regards to the brutal treatment enforced by Chinese officers. His tweets prompt his following activists to engage in this revolutionary dialogue. These followers pledge their allegiance to the cultural movement via Twitter. Such massive feedback turned into a social media flood, causing the controversy over Chinese law officials to become viral. In this context, entertainment can serve as a unifying force to pull together social media users around a particular issue or ideal. Moreover, the identity work involved in social media activity can incentivize associations with positive political causes.
All not violent activities are only supported if they are aimed at achieving common good and are justifiable. The revolt in Egypt was triggered by the young people given the fact that they are generally the ones who shoulder the biggest portion of the repercussions of the failed political status quo. The increase in global food prices that was witnessed in the year 2010 made the life of jobless youth and women even worse (All & Macharia, 2013). They felt short of life’s full opportunities and rewards, with reference to education, jobs, income and the general comfort. This justifies their reason for staging mass protests, refusing to be cajoled in either the legit...
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James S. O’Rourke IV, Brynn Harris, Allison Ogilvy: Google in China: government censorship and corporate reputation Journal of Business Strategy Vol. 28 NO. 2 2007