In the past 6 months, China has gone on a widespread crackdown of the internet. Initially they have been shutting down porn sites among other sites with vulgarity. But now, the web censorship of the communist machine is unsurprisingly shutting down various blog sites that are frequented by activists. This blog in particular is hosted on bullog.cn.
The article states that it is unknown if the shutdown of bullog is permanent or not. The article also states that the Chinese government is very wary of losing it's control of the internet, which is why there has been such a tremendous crackdown lately. It remains to be seen what exactly caused this site to be shutdown, but MSN believes it has something to do with a petition that was circulated on bullogs boards about creating a new Chinese constitution that grants human rights to all citizens. Also, a Chinese government group that monitors web content posted a list of sites deemed "pornographic" in nature, and it included msn.com on that list.
Up til now, 41 websites have been banned in China during this internet sweep. For the most part, this reaction from China is unsurprising to me, considering they trample human rights left and right and it's officials are clinging to power by use of censorship and abuse. Only in China could such a blatant disregard for the flow of information be possible.
The article from which this summary was made came from msnbc.com and is located at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28577927/
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I agree that it is wrong that the Chinese government is censoring what its citizens can view on the internet but sadly it is not the only government in the world to do so. I think it’s is a shame that a government is afraid that its people may find out that there is a better life available else where in the world.
ReplyDeleteThat is crazy that China is banning so many of the sites of the internet. That sucks for chinese people.
ReplyDeleteChina just needs to understand that no matter how much they try to filter the internet. The internet will not be error free. In a sense, that's all part of if being the internet. If there was ways to filter the internet, don’t you think we would have heard of this idea, to keep hackers out of the system? I know that porno sites are illegal in this country. But, again how could the internet be filtered? If it was able to be, I think China would have already solved the problem their self and would not need any assistance.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that the world sits back while communism runs free in parts of the world
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