Should Twitter and Facebook be Banned in China?

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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.

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