This is a map of the percentage of the chinese people that are affected by the internet censorship that their government imposes on them.

 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5cxlvFSRTco&list=PL079B2673B6FAEF58
 This is a link to Pi Sans blow up the school short video this is a personal favorite I have of his videos
this video is about the censorship in china and how when the people of china fight back they are always deflected

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WZs4CuQ0lx4
    This is a link to another Pi San short film called crack sunflower seeds and it is about al wewei (another artist in china) who was taken away and jailed for his artwork against the government

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4CPrdhfA36w&list=PL079B2673B6FAEF58
 This is a link to another Pi San video its about how one person can change the lives of others by having one act of courage

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dWfUOG0EA9w
   this video helps you understand how the censorship in china is all filtered  and delt with

Introduction

Sierra Scheinuck

Tara Nuth

Global Studies

June,5 , 2012              

            China, one of the most technologically advanced countries besides our own, is censoring the internet. Key words like Egypt and Tibet have been censored; The Chinese people are protesting against the censorship. Individuals in China are trying to make a difference; they try to make protest rallies and Anti-censorship websites. The American people are angry about it too, not giving free speech is something us Americans are VERY touchy about. Google has left the country because it refuses to censor anything on their website. Even after intense negotiations the Chinese government will not budge. Personally I think what the Chinese government is doing isn’t fair and it takes away free speech which is NOT ok.

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 Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations. It occurs in a variety of different kinds including speech, books, music, films and other arts, news, radio, television, and the Internet, and is used to control obscenity, child pornography, hate speech, and to protect children and promote or restrict political or religious views. The Chinese Government is doing almost all of the different types of censorship to their country. The one I am focused on the most is the censorship of the internet. A lot of people take the internet for granted but in China their government takes the power of the internet and abuses it, showing their people only the things they want them to see. Blogs, posts and websites that are against this censorship of the government is immediately stripped off the internet by their Government. The Chinese people are trying to fight this kind of censorship in any way they can.

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Words like Tibet, great firewall, and conflict are blocked on the internet in China. When “Tiananmen square

protest” is searched in China they show pictures of houses and flowers, instead of the hundreds that were

fired on and killed by their own government. The Chinese Gov. is also setting up internet attacks on

companies such as Google. "The primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese

human rights activists," Google said on its official blog. The Chinese government has to track 300 million micro

–bloggers on a regular schedule. Personally I think the Chinese government is taking on a big task that they

don’t necessarily need. People should be allowed the right to free speech and a free web. The more the

Chinese government tries to control the web the more people will rebel against it.

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The Chinese people build websites and they create blogs against internet censorship, and every time there government erases the site/blog and gives them a hefty fine. Pi San, a Chinese artist, was given a hefty fine for drawing and putting the image “blow up the school” on the internet. The image was about a boy at school and it was his first day on the internet; all he saw was censorship. A lot of Chinese artists and musicians are getting hefty fines for creating drawings and pictures of the Gov. “China’s, tracking down unwanted content and supposed miscreants among the online population of 500 million with an army of more than 50,000 censors and vast networks of advanced filtering software” says Vera Titunik. This very easily takes away their right to free speech. Every time a person posts or creates an online protest the Government wipes it off the internet in seconds. The Chinese Government spends millions of dollars on their massive “internet army”. American companies and the American Gov. are very worried about all the censorship and they want no part in helping the Government of China.

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I have very strong and not so strong feelings about the internet censorship in China it’s horrible in some aspects and totally justifiable in others. It’s justifiable in some ways because the government has stopped the spread of nasty rumors child porn sites and sites that sell women and children as slaves. Their censorship has also stopped the right to free speech and any kind of cartoons that demonstrates the government as unhealthy or restraining of the internet. It’s appalling to me how fast this has all taken place within the last 3 years. Our own government does this to us in slight little ways with sites that haven’t gathered much attention yet that they find disturbing or not suitable to be “leaked out”. We should be grateful that our Gov. has not abused its power the way the Chinese government has. Personally I think the Chinese government is hurting itself more than helping itself.

Conclusion

Censorship is nasty word when it comes into our heads we think of restraints and being bound together. The government of China is restricting access to popular sites it’s like they are trying to create and internet revolution even daring their people to fight against them. That is why I found this topic so easy and compelling to write about. Artists will always creatively speak out against something that is unjust and the government will always try to justify their actions. The people of china need to rise up against their censorship if they let their government get away with this then why they can’t get away with anything else. My message to the Chinese people is to rise up and take back your internet no one can tell you what you can and cannot look at. The world and the internet is yours harness it.

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