What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Cyber-Space?

Bob Fu conveys clearly the inexorable control that Communist leaders in China have over their people. For example, after Fu and his friends participated in the Tiananmen Square protests, Fu was coerced, day in day out, to write a confession of his purported misdeeds against China and her people as a “counterrevolutionary” (79-82, 85, 87).

When Jan Wong first arrived in China, she was filled with the complete belief that China’s totalitarianism way of government was the best way of governing, and that no other way would do. While natives smiled behind false expressions, she failed to realize the true extent of the miserable lives under the Maoist regime until she herself experienced the injustices faced by the Chinese citizens. In Red China Blues, author Jan Wong writes of her experiences during her life in China and after, and how her whole journey led to the realization of the harsh reality that Maoism really was. As Wong learned more and more about the truth behind the totalitarian government, her own experiences helped her to transform

Online technologies are beneficial to the modern world. It can improve a person’s education, business, and helps in everyday life hassles. It has become an essential part of the way that people live and it is very likely that people would be a loss without it. In “Ethics and the New Genetics,” the Dalai Lama claims that to ethically use new technological advancements we need to develop a “moral compass”. Peter Singer, in “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets,” discusses whether new technology and “openness” makes our lives better, or if the lack of privacy takes away the rights of individuals. Both authors discuss how technology is advancing very rapidly and can significantly have major pros and cons to society. The two authors, however, have different viewpoints in which how the society can determine when technology has become ethical. Dalai Lama is firm believer that technology is evolving so fast that ethics could hardly keep up with it. He addresses how people should have ethical standards when dealing with the internet. Thus, he is directly proving to us how he would want society to ethically determine when and how technology should be used. Yet, on another spectrum, Peter Singer argues that although ethically, internet is invading our privacy, this invasion of privacy is the only way that the public is safe and people should brutally discover the truth about everything but somehow it can cause harm. Peter Singer and Dalai Lama both agree how the new online

In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, O’Brien drills the idea into Winston’s mind that reality is only truly present in the human mind. The Chinese government tries to establish this within the media, the internet, and the people of China. William Lutz’s essay, “No One Died in Tiananmen Square” reflects Orwell’s 1984 and the thoughts of the Party, such as re-education, and reality control.

Read Martyn Stewart's Story ACTIVISM GONE BAD IN YULIN, CHINA. You'll quickly discover that it pretty much matches what we have been saying about Marc Ching's lack of credibility and his willingness to lie to his followers to produce a response that would not only bring him personal adulations but also undeserved donations.

There’s evidence of this happening in people’s everyday real lives as well, this doesn’t just dwell inside of the book. China’s communist government oppresses its people as well, via the means of the internet. Ilham Tohti, just like Winston, felt the means to rebel by writing his feelings and hatred down. Mr.Tohti was unfortunately caught by his government and was issued a life imprisonment. Unlike Winston who succumbed to the group mentality during what their government called the two minutes of hate. Both examples; fictional stories and real life missories show ways of internal conflicts. Ilham just like Winston wanted to vent their anger into writing. Winston was subject to falling into the crowd even though he hates the very thing he’s cheering for while Ilham was subject to wrongful imprisonment. To quote Newsela’s article titled China’s massive effort to control internet content: “a Chinese court sentenced him to life imprisonment on charges of promoting “separatism.” ” It’s rather ironic that they charge Ilham on the terms of separatism when they, themselves are doing the exact same thing to their population as a whole.

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.

This issue is very concerning for all of China because the government will not allow any opposition to itself. The government is not moderated and therefore has indefinite power. There is nothing to stand in the way of the government doing whatever they want. There are 420,000,000 Internet users in China. That is more than the entire population of the United States. Also, recently there have been some rally cries on the Internet in China that are similar to those of the Middle East/Egypt. China is becoming even stricter on the Internet usage policies because they do not want what happened in Egypt to spread to China. The government has also said that if any reporters come to the supposed rally sites they will either be deported or arrested and sent to jail.

One major similarity between both 1984 and the Chinese cultural revolution is that people experience propaganda during their everyday normal lives. Propaganda has been in use for centuries, and many countries seek to control their population by monopolizing all communication within the state. Despotic regimes and is increasingly effective when coupled with new technological and psychological advances of the modern era (Lansford). In China, as well as in 1984, some concepts of freedom of the press are nonexistent as the state uses radio, television, and print media to control the flow of information both within and out of the state (Lansford).

Nonetheless, the popularization of the internet enables the Chinese to get in touch with the Western values. Thus, activism for human rights has appeared online. This essay will argue how online activism has influenced Chinese understandings of human rights; formed the attitude toward the authoritarian regime; and shaped the Chinese society. Two cases are selected namely 1) Shanxi black brick kiln slave scandal; 2) Lei Yang incident. At the same time, I will illustrate how the authority response to the two incidents which are positive and negative respectively. The positive is that the social welfare has been improved, while the negative is that the government tightened the cyber control.

The freedom of religion is also violated. This is evident when China prohibits all religious activities outside establishments registered; only four religions which are Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity and Islum, are permitted for people to practise and contents are monitored and sometimes modified. The government has endeavoured to eliminate many types of new religious group, including Falun Gong. Falun gong has been banned since 1999; security forces kidnap and arrest thousands of Falun Gong leaders, approximately 3000 practitioners were tortured to death and 6000 was sent to prison(Human rights watch, 2002), because it had been the most serious threat to the government since the 1989 Tiananmen student uprising. The governments do not approve of religious performance, so people would not share ideas that are not beneficial to obedience under a communist regime.

“All art may be propaganda, but not all propaganda is art” observes Lu Xun, a leading figure in Modern Chinese literature. During the 1970s there was a lot of propaganda to control the masses, but nowadays oppression is more widespread in the form of controlling people’s internet usage.

China has been a communist country since the communist revolution took place in 1949, since then China has been ruled by the dictator Mao Tse-Tung. However the Chinese dictator died in September 1976, he was hailed abroad as one of the worlds’ great leaders. Certainly one of the more impressive aspects of the Chinese communist government, has been the willingness of the people to protest against it (3, pg. 4).

While speaking out against the People’s Republic of China may have its consequences, the words that someone may speak carry much more weight and meaning than many of the marches or movements in America, largely in part of it is a right in the United States to be outspoken. When a group of people speak out against their government in China, it causes waves all across the media and the country itself. When a group of people speaks out against the American government, no one cares. No one cares, because that is 75% of social media content in the United

Within the United States, the first amendment, freedom of speech includes the cyber-web. However, the government may try to examine personal information to protect its citizens from planned terroristic activities. Even so, these terrorists are allowed to say whatever they want, but it does not mean it will be ignored and not taken as a literal threat by the government. Throughout other parts the world, however, countries rely on communicating through means of the internet as ways to spread propaganda. In countries like China specifically, their government censors its citizens to prevent the spreading of propaganda or other radicalism. However, due to the fact that China’s strategy is so