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Friday, September 17, 2010

I am back!!

Why can't I update my blog?
The answer is that Blogger is forbidden in China, which is the same as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube.
It is quite hard for to find an exact and perfect way to "climb over the wall" to surf the wide range of web. The forbidden web is just an epitmoe of the relative close society of China.
The controlling of mind always appears in the history of China as a treatment of controlling the country. In the Qing Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang used an extreme way to controll the culture, which is that he killed most people and burned the books that opposed his policies. Since then, such controlling of mind and culture is often around.
The forbidden web first appeared before the 2008 Olympic, which is a treatment to prevent the terrorist incidents. However, after the 2008 Olympic, the trend developed much more than ever. In 2009, lots of netizens who can't endure such treatment began their pratical joke on the net and than such hit words like "草泥马" became popular. Besides that, the outstanding Chinese netizens began to find the way to "climb over the wall", which means going to the overseas websites without any barriers. And now I succeeded!!!
Actually, I can concern what Chinese government think about the web--a Damocles swor but a useful tool to communicate with their citizens. Government may think they secure the safety of the country and people, but they forget the freedom and the rights that the individuals should and must gain. On this issue, Chinese government may think over, as people have rights to know the outside voices and the close treatment cannot be remained forever.

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