Chin Government Censorship In China

Throughout history censorship has been primarily used to effectively repress a person or group’s opinion about a certain subject. Censorship is not only used in radical nations that are ruled by a dictator such as North Korea,

Censorship in China has gained much attention recently because of the conflict between Google and the Chinese government’s self-censorship policies. In fact, censorship has been practiced since ancient China and the intensity only increases by the years. Nowadays, the most notable measure of censorship is being done on the Internet. More and more restrictions have been put into actions by the Chinese government, which make the life of Chinese Internet users, the Chinese netizens, very inconvenient. With the intensity of censorship increasing and the censoring technology improving, Internet censorship has mainly negative effects on Chinese society.

“Censorship is the control of what people may say, hear, write, read, see, or do.” All around the word censorship comes in various forms, the four major types of censorship consist of moral, military, political, and religious censorship. At whatever point an administration or private group feels jeopardized by free expression, it may swing to restriction to secure their fundamental beliefs. Every civilization, including equitable ones, has had some sort of restriction when its rulers have felt it would profit the country or themselves. The type of censorship mostly found in undemocratic countries would be political censorship. “Political Censorship is used by governments that fear the free expression of criticism and opposing ideas.”

Western countries have often criticised China for its strict internet laws and censorship arguing that such actions are a breaching of human rights. Hillary Clinton as the US Secretary of State under the Obama administration has condemned China for its internet censorship.

Censorship is a very sensitive topic in the United States. In 2011, Google agreed to remove 87 percent of the content that the government had requested the removal of (Sutter). This means that the US was successful in censoring the public, with Google complying with their requests. If this continues, the government could eventually censor the public from most of the things that happen in the outside world similar to the foundation of North Korea. There is not a case for censorship because it limits the freedom of expression, destroys creativity, and puts the public at risk.

(Finlay) Up until recently in China, the government has censored the population and its activities until lower-class and farmer backed blogs started to appear, revealing and declassifying the tyrannies and horrible practices of the government, but the government has been able to shoot them down with their impermeable internet firewall. In China, there is a very strict internet firewall that restricts the media output of the citizens that is sometimes referred to as the Great Firewall of China. The Chinese government is trying to “control public discourse.”5 The public discourse referred to in this article are blogs and online forums where people can share their opinions about the articles they read online. The articles are also banned

Art censorship is encroaching on artists’ creating rights and the essential human rights. It shouldn’t be persisted in China. This system from an autocratic government, it eliminates the art works which they don’t like, some masterpieces are destroyed by this system, this system exists for control artists’ voice, they choose the art works which extol the government, and ban those that criticize the government. It totally infringes artists’ rights. WeiWei Ai is a famous artist who fights for human rights in China. According to an interview from Angie Baecker with Ai, in China, people were not allowed to talk about humanity and social situation. Lots of movies and TV shows didn’t pass the art censorship, and the scripts had to examine by the

In the article Apple Disables News App in China Amid Censorship Concerns, Wiser discusses China's use of censorship and the relationship with American companies and news agencies. This specific example makes me realize that as an American I have many rights that I take for granted. I never think about having the privilege of the availability to the news, but in other countries they don't have that luxury. The Chinese government blocks many websites in order to “kick the truth under the rug.” In recent history, the Chinese government temporarily uplifted some censorship regulations during the 2008 summer Olympics to create an artificial facade to the public. This is a parallel to when the Germans hosted the 1936 summer Olympic Games and cleaned

It's prevalent to affirm that the China and the United States relationship have improved over serval decades; nevertheless, both countries does not seem to play by the same rules. China censorship and apply heavy laws and regulations to benefit its local industry over the rest of the world's organizations in an apparent unfair manner; having said that, the Hofstede’s individualism cultural dimension sets China as a collaborative nation and the United States as an individualistic nation. With this precedent, would you think that a third party or mediator could be the driver that allows both nations to collaborate and coordinate their agenda?

Media Censorship in China: Preventing people from using Internet to organize any kind of viable political opposition.

Now, many Chinese citizens are attempting to access these applications and searches without censorship by “connect[ing] to virtual private networks that provide them with communications channels to servers outside the Chinese mainland” (Bradsher 4). Though, many citizens have found loopholes in order to post their messages to these websites. For example, on Weibo (the Chinese version of twitter), if a user were to post using a specific keyword, the post would automatically be deleted, if not manually by a superior on the site if it slipped through the system. However, because the use of “abbreviations, neologisms, homophones, and homographs” by users, many political satirists, revolutionists, or regular citizens find themselves sliding through the cracks thus escaping the censoring governments reach (Wang and Mark 5). In addition, because the government also changes from time to time, a man named Yu Jia, a government critic stated that “Today's China is very different from Chairman Mao's China. I think then, it used to be like an iron slab, and there was only really one idea. It was completely impermeable. But now, it's more like a fishnet, and there are holes” (Jia, Han and Fu 4). This further proves the argument that legislation in regard to behavior online is too varied in

In the United States, every child, teenager and adult uses Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook, among numerous other sites, regularly. The internet is open and uncensored for the most part, other than parental controls. In China, most, if not all of those types of sites are or have been blocked. As in, you could not go to them, unless you found some way around the web filters and firewalls the Chinese government runs in their country. While China defends their practice of internet censorship, based on “protecting” the people, heavy internet censorship is a block to free speech and impedes economic and social development in the 21st century.

Censorship is a form of suppression to one’s freedom of speech, and the access towards certain information. When computers started to appear on the tables of Chinese civilians in the 1990s, the Chinese government launched the Great Firewall of China (GFW) into action. Today, almost half of China’s population are internet users, marking 668 million, doubling the United States’ population in 2013. However, the Chinese government’s tactic on censoring the internet to deny access to certain foreign websites has both positive and negative effects on the country. This research wants to determine whether those websites should be censored by the Chinese government.

Though out history artist have rejected any forms of censorship. Governments have had to enforce censorship laws for the sake of public safety. As well, as to maintain control of society and to uphold the moral and ethical values that the populous demands. Whether you are for or against censorship in art, it serves a useful purpose in moderation, but it can be taken to extremes. Whether it’s a fascist government or a extremist religious organization it is easy for a controversial law to be twisted in order to grab and maintain absolute power over the masses. We as a people need structure and laws but we need our freedom to express ourselves. Lean one way or the other too far and society can potentially fall apart.

Censorship is a very thought-provoking topic. For centuries artists have fought for their right to reveal their freedom of expression through their art. Restriction on art is not a cutting-edge concept. Censorship has been taking place since the 1500s, thus art has been restricted for ages. The suppression of art could be for a number of reasons. Political, moral and religious can all be possible reasons for censorship.