Google's Censorship In China

China is best known for its “Great Firewall in China” for blocking its citizen access to certain sites including: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, The Pirate Bay, The New York Times, and Dropbox. Many have been able to get around this by using a VPN, a Virtual Private Network, and using services like Private Internet Access, a paid VPN. These act as a middleman, encrypting and sending your internet data to servers in the US, to see uncensored websites, allowing censorship to be destroyed

Their internet is closed and under the control of the Chinese government. The Chinese government even has the ability to turn off the internet for everyone in the country. Citizens of China cannot express themselves openly online. The control China has over its citizens, affects their ability to help and protect themselves. Controlled internet access gives governments better ability to control the beliefs of their citizens. If a government can control what information is available to its citizens, it becomes much easier to manipulate what that countries citizens believe is happening in the world. Countries can use the internet as a weapon of war against their own

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.

Michael Anti is another person has a different perspective of censorship but the anti-censorship. Anti made a TED video explains the censorship of the Chinese’s internet, and how their firewall is like the Great Wall of China protecting their people. Anti described the situation of the Chinese’s internet as the cat and mouse game. The cat is the Chinese’s internet as in the government and the mouse as the citizens using the internet (TED video). He explained that all the social websites that the United States of America have and other countries like Twitter, Facebook, etc., the Chinese have their own version. The video continues to give detail on the Chinese’s government and how it prevents citizens to access the global internet and inaccessibility

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

In an average, everyday American life after school or work they would go home and do homework, or eat some kind of snack. If they have any special plans or a sport so to speak, they would do those sorts of things, but if not this is usually when the technology starts to come into play. Laptops, computers, tablets, phones, Ipods. All these things have access to the internet, better yet, they thrive on it. All of these electronic devices almost have no use without the internet. All this information and knowledge, uncensored and completely open to the public eye, this is what it is like in one place, but it's slightly different in another. In China they might follow the same rhyme or reason, but over all the internet, time is generally shortened. This is because of how limited the internet is. China's internet is censored by a firewall the Chinese government put up. The Chinese government blocks almost all communication sites, makes large companies censor their online content if they want to be allowed on the Chinese internet, and is doing all this without the bulk of their population finding out.

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.

The Freedom of Speech is granted to every American citizen and has been since it was founded in 1776; however, not every nation grants that right. China, as a communist nation, retains most individual freedom rights from its citizens. Although in the Peoples Republic of China’s (PRC) 1982 constitution, people are guaranteed Freedom of Expression and Press; it is often violated by the current corrupt government. The government demands the news to be 80% positive and 20% negative, altering the facts n occasion. In contrast to that, America has recently become more involved with the pressing issue as well because of the involvement of Google. Thus it has shined the light on government censorship and corruption. China’s government corruption

Surprisingly so, Chinese websites aren’t the only ones that are censoring their consumers access. American sites such as Google had allowed the censorship of anything that dealt with democracy to not be accessed in exchange for equipment instillation in Chinese soil (Grossman, Beech 2006). While it benefited Google through expanding their company it impeded free speech by not allowing people to access sites that were deemed inappropriate by the government. Agreements like Googles only assists the Chinese government in continuing to impose censorship and regulations among their citizens creating anxiety and concern amongst their users.This however has not stopped people from using the internet in China. Currently, Emily Rauhala states that while China has tamed

Censorship of information has had a long history throughout the world. In ancient China for example, censorship was considered a legitimate instrument

Google accepting such censorship damaged the company's reputation because according to some critics they did not consider their social responsibility, especially human rights. Their critics believe they favor profitability over human rights. On the contrary Google argues that by adapting the way they operate in China, and allowing censorship would help bring more freedom of speech eventually. The article, Business

Internet censorship refers to constraints placed on people’s freedoms to freely access Internet services. Such restrictions are often imposed by governmental entities with the aim of controlling access to information and its dissemination. Herein, the paper explores Internet censorship in China and its implications on Google’s future in the Chinese market.

Censorship is a way to control the information the public in China is able to see. Web chats, search engines and social media platforms are the main aspects censored on the Chinese internet. Controversial and belittling content are sought out by human and technical censors to be removed. The Great Firewall is the main technical way the Chinese government is able to censor various aspects of the internet and was initiated by China’s Ministry of Public Security. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are censored as one can search up, for example, how to overthrow the government, as stated by Jason Q. Ing, a researcher who delves deep into the Chinese internet to understand the mysteries behind censorship . A

There are various companies around the world that have business and services in China and Google is one of them. Google is the number one in search engine and in advertisement. It has its operations all across the world and has had a good performance over the last many years. With their multiples attempts in China, Google had been through challenging issues. Part of the main causes with these issues is that Google acceptance of the Chinese government policies. The government had created certain regulations on the use of Internet. Because of this strict regulation, Google was dealt with a definite case of an obstacle to fully penetrate consumers in China. In relation to this fact, Google was faced with the problems of whether to continue operations in China or not. In addition, Google has to find out whether, it should totally move out of the country. This was a big task giving the company had done business in country for a while. China is the fastest and largest growing market in the world and if Google decides to move out of the country, then, Google could experience loss of income and revenue to certain degree. Instead of taking this risk to move out, Google should make sure to follow its company policy if needs to achieve better results in the future.

Position: China wants to enforce Google the same level of censorship so that it can appear to the world as an independent and powerful actor in the global marketplace.