Several sites that were blocked before were suddenly accessible on last friday. China is notorious for it's censorship for in the information on the Internet. Sites that related to pornagrphy or voilate state secret will be flitered and sometimes be blocked. To control some news that agianst the image of the country, some foreign reporters' e-mail accounts are sometimes be hacked. Maybe, the people is China has already got used to this limited information flow, or maybe that is the reason why so many pirate sites now used around the world are from China.
On the forth of June, the social network site Fourquarter was block when users tried to check-in in Tiananment to memorial the 21th anniversary of Tiananment Square masssacre. However, some porn sites which were banned for a long time was being suddenly accesible.
What does that say to Chinese Government? That it cares more about the past than now?
People in China said, there's alway an unclear reasons why some sites are banned and others are not. Guess in a automacratic society like China, people are not allowed to ask but just to follow. Even with the free feature of the Internet, China is using every means to remains its power amoungst its people.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
It's a privilege to freely access to information
It's shocking yet sad to read this line from a Chinese student in Hong Kong, "Free access to information is a need and a privilege." With the strictly censoring of information in China, this represents lots of other Chinese students either now studying abroad or studying in Hong Kong.
How free the media in China is? 'China's constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press, but the document contains broad language that says Chinese citizens must defend "the security, honor, and interests of the motherland."' Which means anything the government thinks would offend to what has been mentioned above will be blocked by its firewall. What happens to those aren't blocked but then considered to violate the regulation? Fine, closing news outlet, imprisonment, self-censorship would be faced. Words like protests, environmental disasters, Tibet, and Taiwan will be filtered and maybe blocked.
Information is relatively limited. No wonder there’s often a big difference between Chinese people and people from other cultures. I think with the closed information flow, it’s so hard for them to know about what is going on outside their soil. Digital divide will happen due to being rich or not. However, even with the light year speed of developing in China societies, the censorship from the Government is slowly draining the public’s brains.
further reading:
Media censorship in China. http://www.cfr.org/publication/11515
China's censorship could lead to a brain drain. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/03/hong.kong.students.google/
How free the media in China is? 'China's constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press, but the document contains broad language that says Chinese citizens must defend "the security, honor, and interests of the motherland."' Which means anything the government thinks would offend to what has been mentioned above will be blocked by its firewall. What happens to those aren't blocked but then considered to violate the regulation? Fine, closing news outlet, imprisonment, self-censorship would be faced. Words like protests, environmental disasters, Tibet, and Taiwan will be filtered and maybe blocked.
Information is relatively limited. No wonder there’s often a big difference between Chinese people and people from other cultures. I think with the closed information flow, it’s so hard for them to know about what is going on outside their soil. Digital divide will happen due to being rich or not. However, even with the light year speed of developing in China societies, the censorship from the Government is slowly draining the public’s brains.
further reading:
Media censorship in China. http://www.cfr.org/publication/11515
China's censorship could lead to a brain drain. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/06/03/hong.kong.students.google/
Saturday, June 5, 2010
21th anniversay of Tiananmen
I was counting the date the other day, when I realize it was forth of June, I got a weird feeling that there was something on this date. Used to be something going on on this date, then I read this article which solve my question. It was the 21th anniversary of Tianamen incident. Back home, every 4/6, our TV will constantly broadcast what happened 20 ye21th anniversay of Tiananmen
I was counting the date the other day, when I realize it was forth of June, I got a weird feeling that there was something on this date. Used to be something going on this date, and then I read this article which solves my question. It was the 21th anniversary of Tiananmen incident. Back home, every 4/6, our TV will constantly broadcast what happened 20 years ago, and how do the people memorial it.
This social network site, Foursquare, is a location- based that allows users to share their location via mobile phones with friends. However, when users tried to check-in the location of Tiananmen on Friday, the website was blocked.
Just like that, China Government once again using it firewalls to block the things they don't want the public to know. Can history be erased? Yes, it may. After 20 years of strictly filtered the information, lots of youngsters in China actually don't have a clue what happened 20 years ago. History does being erased. This thing explains the reason why those youngsters don't really think that they are being censored, after all, how can one desires for something that he doesn't even know its existence?
Further reading:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Chinese-Censorship-vs-Foursquare-1366/
Foursquare:
http://foursquare.com/
ars ago, and how do the people momerial it.
This social network site, Foursquare, is a location- based that allows users to share their location via mobile phones with friends. However, on Friday, whe users trying to check-in the location of Tiananmen, the website was blocked.
Just like that, China Government once again using it firewall to block the things they don't want the public to know. Can history be ereased? Yes, it may. After 20 years of stricly filtered the information, lots of youngsters in China actually don't have a clue what happend 20 years ago. Hitstory does being ereased. This thing explains the reason why those youngsters don't really think that they are being censored, after all, how can one desires for something that he doesn't even know its existence?
Further reading:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Chinese-Censorship-vs-Foursquare-1366/
Foursquare:
http://foursquare.com/
I was counting the date the other day, when I realize it was forth of June, I got a weird feeling that there was something on this date. Used to be something going on this date, and then I read this article which solves my question. It was the 21th anniversary of Tiananmen incident. Back home, every 4/6, our TV will constantly broadcast what happened 20 years ago, and how do the people memorial it.
This social network site, Foursquare, is a location- based that allows users to share their location via mobile phones with friends. However, when users tried to check-in the location of Tiananmen on Friday, the website was blocked.
Just like that, China Government once again using it firewalls to block the things they don't want the public to know. Can history be erased? Yes, it may. After 20 years of strictly filtered the information, lots of youngsters in China actually don't have a clue what happened 20 years ago. History does being erased. This thing explains the reason why those youngsters don't really think that they are being censored, after all, how can one desires for something that he doesn't even know its existence?
Further reading:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Chinese-Censorship-vs-Foursquare-1366/
Foursquare:
http://foursquare.com/
ars ago, and how do the people momerial it.
This social network site, Foursquare, is a location- based that allows users to share their location via mobile phones with friends. However, on Friday, whe users trying to check-in the location of Tiananmen, the website was blocked.
Just like that, China Government once again using it firewall to block the things they don't want the public to know. Can history be ereased? Yes, it may. After 20 years of stricly filtered the information, lots of youngsters in China actually don't have a clue what happend 20 years ago. Hitstory does being ereased. This thing explains the reason why those youngsters don't really think that they are being censored, after all, how can one desires for something that he doesn't even know its existence?
Further reading:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Chinese-Censorship-vs-Foursquare-1366/
Foursquare:
http://foursquare.com/
Friday, June 4, 2010
When can't get one, make a clone.
Friday, June 4, 2010
When can't get one, make a clone.
iPad launched in Australia few days ago, and this new toy has drawn lots of attention around the world. What about China?
"Apple may have sold 2 million of its new iPad tablet computers in less than two months, but it now has a Chinese challenger - the identical looking iPed." Sydney Morning Herald, June 2, 2010.
From all the articles that I've read and search about China, I came across to this one about the new competitive gadget that designed in China called iPed. It looks almost the same as iPad and it’s an internet –based, android- based copycat package. That makes me wonder one thing, is it because the closeness of information in China that Chinese often come with those counterfeit products?
China has been using every means to filter the information on the internet and tend to shape the public's thoughts by blocking information and stopping international firms set business on the mainland. Maybe that's the core reason why China is the largest kingdom of counterfeit under its great firewall. Due the initial desire of wanting to know and wanting to get, Chinese people come to make their own things since they are limited in fulfilling their desires.
further reading:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/ipad-lookalike-for-sale-in-china-20100602-wx0e.html
When can't get one, make a clone.
iPad launched in Australia few days ago, and this new toy has drawn lots of attention around the world. What about China?
"Apple may have sold 2 million of its new iPad tablet computers in less than two months, but it now has a Chinese challenger - the identical looking iPed." Sydney Morning Herald, June 2, 2010.
From all the articles that I've read and search about China, I came across to this one about the new competitive gadget that designed in China called iPed. It looks almost the same as iPad and it’s an internet –based, android- based copycat package. That makes me wonder one thing, is it because the closeness of information in China that Chinese often come with those counterfeit products?
China has been using every means to filter the information on the internet and tend to shape the public's thoughts by blocking information and stopping international firms set business on the mainland. Maybe that's the core reason why China is the largest kingdom of counterfeit under its great firewall. Due the initial desire of wanting to know and wanting to get, Chinese people come to make their own things since they are limited in fulfilling their desires.
further reading:
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/ipad-lookalike-for-sale-in-china-20100602-wx0e.html
Faceoff in China
Facebook was registered with a ".cn" domain name in 2006, and that was when the media world also disseminated this information in China. Additionally, afterwards Li Jiacheng invested more than 100 million U.S. dollars into Facebook and Facebook’s potential entry into China was again brought up. However, thus far, Facebook is still hovering on the outside.
China has its own social network sites such as QQ, Renren, or Kaixin001, even with the popularity of Facebook around every parts of the world; Facebook still can't find its way to enter this great online market.
China is a very local- firm- protected country, and that is another reason that Google announced to resign the soil. I think the rationale behind the government will be 1, to block anything that imply autocratic of China; 2, to block any outside companies that has potential competition to our local firms. The second one reminds me of the Ching Dynasty when Chinese empire choose to block every information outside their borders. Back then was through military force to stop foreign ambassador to come in to the land. Now with the broad less internet, the great firewall and unreasonable business regulations serve the similar function as thousands of years ago.
China has its own social network sites such as QQ, Renren, or Kaixin001, even with the popularity of Facebook around every parts of the world; Facebook still can't find its way to enter this great online market.
China is a very local- firm- protected country, and that is another reason that Google announced to resign the soil. I think the rationale behind the government will be 1, to block anything that imply autocratic of China; 2, to block any outside companies that has potential competition to our local firms. The second one reminds me of the Ching Dynasty when Chinese empire choose to block every information outside their borders. Back then was through military force to stop foreign ambassador to come in to the land. Now with the broad less internet, the great firewall and unreasonable business regulations serve the similar function as thousands of years ago.
The Great Wall online
Thousand years ago, China built the Great Wall to protect themselves from their intruders up in the North. The Great Wall has done a fantastic job and has since then protects Chinese people from the intrusion of other countries. On March, 30, according to the reporters, they now can't get the result of searching word containing RFA which may stand for Radio Free Asia, or anything relating to "Falungong" and "Dalai Lama" were blocked. The Great Wall online in China, the great firewall has blocked everything that might intrude to the publics' minds.
I refused to think that China is still closed and autocratic, however, as the information gets more and more freely exchangeable that I come to realize the absolute monarchy system that China is having now.
Thousand years after the Great Wall is built and now visited by thousands of tourists from every part of the world, China is now having its great firewall in the virtual world to block every part of the world away.
I refused to think that China is still closed and autocratic, however, as the information gets more and more freely exchangeable that I come to realize the absolute monarchy system that China is having now.
Thousand years after the Great Wall is built and now visited by thousands of tourists from every part of the world, China is now having its great firewall in the virtual world to block every part of the world away.
Freedom of speech?? Where?
Few days after Google announced to leave Chinese market, few journalists who based on Western countries, saying that their yahoo email account has been hacked. And some of them reported that they've been locked out of their account.
Maybe it is a coincident that those journalists' accounts happen to be hacked right after Google saying that it's going to leave and the criticism of China being ridiculously censoring their Internet has aroused. Or is it?
I came from a country that freedom of speech seems to be a bit over implemented and it's really hard for me to imagine the closeness and censorship that China has. When I am reading this news, question popped out to me. What's the reaction when Chinese international students read this? Which side will they take? Maybe, they will be thinking that, Oh here it comes again. Or, maybe they will respond that, this is just another Western journalism revealing the dark side of our country. China uses lots of different ways to censor the content on the internet; maybe hacking into those accounts of journalists is another way to shut them up before it needs to filter the content to its public.
Maybe it is a coincident that those journalists' accounts happen to be hacked right after Google saying that it's going to leave and the criticism of China being ridiculously censoring their Internet has aroused. Or is it?
I came from a country that freedom of speech seems to be a bit over implemented and it's really hard for me to imagine the closeness and censorship that China has. When I am reading this news, question popped out to me. What's the reaction when Chinese international students read this? Which side will they take? Maybe, they will be thinking that, Oh here it comes again. Or, maybe they will respond that, this is just another Western journalism revealing the dark side of our country. China uses lots of different ways to censor the content on the internet; maybe hacking into those accounts of journalists is another way to shut them up before it needs to filter the content to its public.
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