Sunday, October 21, 2007
Escaping China's Firewall
Living in a communist country create many set backs in freedom of expression. in China, for example, authorities play a crucial role in controlling web accessibility to their citizens. This substantive argument is found in the article "Reporters without Borders" in which the author explains the extent of China's net firewall. Being that most of China's technological influences derives from the west, and being that it has just become a country that gained technological advancement, it is ironic that China's stern control over the net is so far-fetched and isn't remotely close to that of the west. Harsh punishments are proposed if web user's desires to defend their human rights, or if they generally wish to express themselves on a sensitive issue. Talk about consequences you face in a world of central government!! it even gets worse. there are many western web intervention that takes place to alleviate the tight control that China has over its web users, but if a user from China subscribes to a proxy web address, it is open to the public. As a result, a Chinese agent can act as a cyber-dissident and become apart of the website gaining tons of the information and survelling the net. This goes to show there is no easy way in escaping human injustice, such as freedom of expression in China.
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You have some good material here but you need to break it up into shorter paragraphs and proof-read it.
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