CRAW ESSAY There is a country, with a spy-software installed on the computers of its Internet café. There is a country, where 30,000 Internet police use said software to monitor users. There is a country, where access to Google, YouTube, and Facebook are restricted. Instead, they replaced those websites with Baidu, Youku, and Weibo respectively. Often dubbed as The Great Firewall, China’s implementation of censorship continues to garner attention. Not limited to the control of new media, Communist Party of China’s (CCP) extensive control stretches to traditional media as well. Although the Communist Party of China argues that censorship is necessary for China’s prosperity, the seclusion of Chinese citizens from essential news, freedom of expression, and objective education will create a barrier between China and the rest of the world.
The most common justification of censorship mainly revolves around the protection of individuals from dangerous concepts such as pornography and violence. However, who’s to say which contents are dangerous? 1978 was the year in which Communist Party of China handed over its monopoly over the media to the general …show more content…
Censorship makes it difficult for information to be conveyed but does not make it impossible hence it is relatively a waste of time. Considering the information filtered for broadcast is to swing public opinion in favor of Communist Party of China suggests that arguments in favor of censorship may only be cover-ups for the real reason of censorship, to keep citizens from revolting. By that logic, the argument that prosperity of China depends on the application of censorship becomes meaningless. Eventually China will become further secluded from the
The most common justification of censorship mainly revolves around the protection of individuals from dangerous concepts such as pornography and violence. However, who’s to say which contents are dangerous? 1978 was the year in which Communist Party of China handed over its monopoly over the media to the general …show more content…
Censorship makes it difficult for information to be conveyed but does not make it impossible hence it is relatively a waste of time. Considering the information filtered for broadcast is to swing public opinion in favor of Communist Party of China suggests that arguments in favor of censorship may only be cover-ups for the real reason of censorship, to keep citizens from revolting. By that logic, the argument that prosperity of China depends on the application of censorship becomes meaningless. Eventually China will become further secluded from the