The freedom of speech in China August 11, 2013 There is no Facebook or Twitter in China. China may have the world’s most strict censorship and monitoring system, and it has been pushed to its limits to control sensitive political topic such as Tiananmen Square, 2010 Nobel Prize winners Liu Xiaobo and so on. If you use Chinese search engine named Baidu, those kind of topics will be told that according to relevant laws, regulations and policies, some search results did not show. People are
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Google in China’s World Lauri Mak Ottawa University October 19, 2012 Abstract This paper will discuss Google, one of the largest internet search engines decision to enter the China internet market and the deviation against their very own corporate ethics policies. It will identify the key stakeholders involved and will look at the primary non-marketing issues and analysis each issue. Introduction In 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin began developing a search engine called BackRub while
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“Google-ing” China: An ethical analysis of Google’s censorship activities in the People’s Republic by Leonard T. Musielak Introduction The spread of the internet to all corners of the world has led to tremendous business opportunities for many American businesses. With these opportunities may also come many ethical dilemmas. When operating abroad, businesses are required to abide by the laws of the host country. For US companies operating in China and other countries with totalitarian regimes
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西方社交媒体。同时，像古巴和巴基斯坦的专制政权将中国视为他们可以学习的范本--一个鼓舞人心的典范。中国在管理互联网的成功可能是基于西方和中国互联网概念的融合。然而，与中国互联网管理相比，美国有保护公民的个人自由的法律。然而,在中国个人自由的理念是有限的，它仅仅是一个写入中国宪法之内的概念。个人自由在中国是非常有限的，尤其是在关于互联网。Shao教授南京大学声称如下：“在中国，虽然宪法规定保护言论自由，还规定，公民可行使自由和权利在没有侵害国家，社会以及其他公民的利益下，” (Shao, Internet law in China, 2012). 虽然中国政府限制政治言论，，但中国已在商业化互联网取得进步。互联网的商业化导致在上市的公司如阿里巴巴和新浪微博。与此同时，社会言论传言，中国政府将执行所有可能的政策以禁止任何形式的网上反政府言论。在美国和中国的互联网之间的一个明显区别是，美国公民能够运用互联网来保护他们的人身权利还能发表不服從的发言来反对政府。但是中国公民只能使用互联网于个人或商业用途，任何政治运动都是高度禁止并被视为犯罪行为。 显然，有些中国公民具有强烈的政治发言和政策反对
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complicated by a focus on everyday politics. Chinese citizens do participate in everyday politics, although not in the direct way found in democratic nations. The power of social media in China is allowing internet users to express dissatisfaction with the government, even in the face of censorship. The power of social media and its political influence is illustrated through the 2011 Wenzhou train collision case, which ignited outrage from online communities and led to the exposure of corruption amongst
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Revision #1 24 November 2012 Internet Censorship of the People’s Republic of China 2000 years ago, in Qin Dynasty. The ancient Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang launched the infamous event "Burning of the Books". He burned all the books from the countries he conquered and thousands of Scholars were killed. Why it happened? The reason is simple, Qin Shi Huang wanted to censor any of the information either threat him or his nation. Today, the speed and the scale of the Internet development in China is incredible
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Comment on the legal and regulatory environment in China and its implications for the chinese media. In light of the restrictions imposed by the Chinese government of internet access, how do you think the media industry is affected? On google agreeing to ensure its search content, Reporters without borders commented, “Google’s statement about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China.” However, Google’s Director of Research was of the view, “What’s
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Growing Internet Use in China Reflects Changing Society Internet Use Explodes in China Internet use in China is exploding. According to Kai-Fu Lee, President of Google, China, the growth of the Internet is 40 to 50 percent in the last two years. Today, the number of Chinese using the Internet is greater than the number of Internet users in the United States, and Kai-Fu Lee anticipates that by the end of the year, about a quarter of China’s 1.3 billion people will be online. However,
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Censorship is sometimes justified Whether censorship is justified is always a controversial issue that attracts great public attention, and views of different people might vary greatly. As far as I am concerned, I tend to think that the censorship in China is somehow justified otherwise how can China developed so rapidly for the recent years. I know there are many voices against the censorship of our country, but let’s think from another way, how can we build our welfare and prosperity culture
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Reflection According to the article “The Internet police in China: regulation, scope and myths” wrote by Xiaoyan Chen and Peng Hwa Ang, the authors focused on the analysis of the Chinese Internet censorship and the role of the internet police in China. With the emergence and the development of the Internet, the number of Internet users grew rapidly in China and reached 384 million in 2009, which is larger than the US Internet users. In order to keep the Internet community in order, the Chinese government
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