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Internet Censorship in China. By Shipeng Xu. What content is censored?. Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Flikr etc. Any news sources contains sensitive topics: BBC news, Yahoo news, and CNN news etc. Any website contains obscenity, pornography, or criminal activity. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Internet Censorship in China

Internet Censorship in China

By Shipeng Xu

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What content is censored?• Social networks: Facebook, Twitter,

Youtube and Flikr etc. • Any news sources contains sensitive

topics: BBC news, Yahoo news, and CNN news etc.

• Any website contains obscenity, pornography, or criminal activity.

• Any anti-government website.

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• Incidents of Internet being

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Golden Shield Project

• Also known as the Great Firewall of China.• Consists of standard firewalls and proxy

servers at the Internet gateways. • Censor anything it could.

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Green Dam Youth Escort

• Required on all domestically sold computers.

• Monitor the user’s every move.• Enforcement of the rule indefinitely

delayed.

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Google Battle

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Western Opinion:

• Infringe human rights.• Totally not understandable.• Should be changed.

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Chinese Opinion:• Not very big deal, can always use

VPN or anonymous proxy server to bypass the censor.

• Used to it.• Provides stability.• Good for national unification.• Helpless.

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Why censor the Internet?• Chinese culture and customs.• Large population.• The fear of western culture.• The fear of overturn of the central

government.

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Conclusion:o Blocking Chinese People’s full access to the

Internet is ethically wrong and not understandable.

o The censorship does help national unification. o Hopefully, in the near future, the government

could change the policy and give the full access of the Internet back to its own people.

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Reference:• James, Randy. “China Internet Censorship.” TIME March 18, 2009.

April 24, 2011 <http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885961,00.html>.

• Johnson, Bobbi. “Google's move on Chinese censorship welcomed by human rights activists.” The Guardian January 14, 2010. April 24, 2011

• <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/14/google-praised-human-rights-activists>.

• Bristow, Michael. “China defends Internet censorship.” BBC NEWS June 8, 2010. April 24, 2011. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8727647.stm>

• “Internet Censorship in China.” The New York Times March 22, 2010. April 24, 2011. <http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/internet_censorship/index.html>.

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