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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

 

Internet Dictators

China's control over its' peoples internet can be compared with America during slavery. Since the internet is a boundless resource of information that is being withheld and restricted, I am reminded of slave owners forbidding their slaves to learn to read or gain any knowledge what so ever. The reason for both of these situations of control are to keep the victims from becoming more knowledgeable because knowledge = power.

"Internet "gateways" mainly supervise and filter political information in
China. Their technical functions include blocking overseas Web sites,
filtering content and key words on Web pages, monitoring email and Internet
cafes, hijacking PCs, sending out viruses, and inter-connecting with the
monitoring systems of the Public Security Bureaus. Rather than heralding a
new era of freedom, the Internet is enabling Chinese authorities to perfect
totalitarian control in a way that puts the rulers in George Orwell's 1984
to shame."

People should not only have the right to information but it is innate in humans to crave it. I dont believe China can "hold their poeple down" forever. By the government monitoring every word typed in the country it will be fairly easy to find these so called criminals who are merely searching for info. The jails in China will be filled with these "low-lifes" who seek the truth, but atleast the totalitarian government will be safe.

"Since the first Chinese Web criminal, Lin Haiyin, was imprisoned for
instigating subversive actions in 2000 to the recent arrest of writer Shi Tao,
more than 100 independent intellectuals have been imprisoned for expressing
their views. Internet monitoring is also behind the constant rise in the number
of Falun Gong practitioners executed by the state - a total of 1,692 as of April
18."


posted by Ryan @ 1:37 PM permalink
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