That point is when people are getting punished for not meeting the government 's idea of standards, rules and laws. If the citizens didn’t live under conformity we would fall into devolution. The people still have to follow rules to stay safe and protect themselves. But once the government or leader makes it so we’re following every word they say, they become robots, having more chances of the people rebelling and causing even more trouble. For example, if an individual is curious about an abnormal topic and they looked it up, they’d be punished because the governments in charge of what they 're allowed to view online. In the article ‘Cracking the ‘Great Firewall of China’s Web Censorship “The communist government in Beijing is intensifying its efforts to control what it’s citizens can read and discuss online as political tensions rise,”. In China there 's actually a term for someone who calls themselves a “hacktivist”. In other words, it’s someone who’s “fighting the censors every step of the way,” as described in the article CTGFOCWC. China’s rules are so strict it 's causing an army of …show more content…
China and North Korea’s government get to watch what their citizens do online. Whether or not it’s an invasion of people’s privacy, it’s unlawful. In China, they made the “Great Firewall of China,” a way of filtering what people get to see and search. The people of China are feeling so threatened by it now that there 's “hacktivist” who are “...involved in a kind of technological arms race, inventing software and using other tactics to allow ordinary Chinese to beat the Great Firewall of China,” from the article CTGFOCWC. In other words, a “hacktivist” is someone who’s “fighting the censors every step of the way,” as described in the article CTGFOCWC. In North Korea, to travel you would need a travel permit from the authorities. Why do they need to monitor where they 're going? Are people really that much of a threat to their leaders? Nevertheless, it’s inhumane to say where their citizens can and can’t go, or give permission to travel. Also in North Korea, the government is “... replacing 80% of its broadcast’s with music in a bid to evade enemy surveillance,” so that means that because of enemy surveillance that people can’t freely watch television and broadcasts. That’s also putting people out of work and reducing entertainment, giving more free time. The government may not realize that they 're making it worse by restricting their