For my final paper, I am discussing the effect that the media has had on global communication, especially in countries where their government tries to censor the internet. While searching for information on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, during which China blocked certain internet sites and prevented media from entering the area in which the protests had occurred, I stumbled across this video. Watch this video if you can, it is pretty funny.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8082604.stm
It is basically the Chinese police's attempt to stop the US media from filming, using umbrellas to block the cameras. At first I thought this was a joke, but this is really the tactic that the police used!
What do you think of this video and do you think that the Chinese government will be able to continue censoring the media with the rise of the internet?
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China's government is a scarily oppressive regime. The Chinese government is dangerous, unstable, and anti-democratic. The US needs to take bigger steps to deal with the gross human rights violations constantly occurring over there. I think that the Chinese will do everything they can to censor the Internet.
ReplyDeleteFor a bit of light humor, I recommend to you this article by The Onion, a satirical news organization that has recently been "taken over" by a fictional Chinese company, and changed their articles accordingly. Here's the link: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/internet_adds_12th_website
As for your paper topic, this is an excellent choice. That should be an interesting and enlightening paper. I wonder if the class will have any sort of way that we can read each other's final papers?
It is scary to think that a government can do that to it's citizens. By doing this research I'm learning things that I never knew about the censorship not only in China but in North Korea and other countries as well. Can you believe that a satellite picture taken of the Korean peninsula showed lights (from buildings, cell phone towers, etc.) all across South Korea, while North Korea was completely dark.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the governments of these countries will realize that they would have less problems if they just informed the public more, although I agree that this will take time and that they would have to decide this on their own, for they will most likely NOT be convinced to change their ways by any foreigners.
And thanks for that article!