Summary of Web censorship in China

According to the writer of BBC News in “Web censorship: Correspondent reports” (2006, May 29), in public, China says they don't block anything except morally harmful things on the Internet in China. Actually the Internet in China is completely different from that. Chinese people are controlled by the government on the internet. Recently, the Chinese government made a big censorship system, “Great Firewall of China,” for that. In China, we can't reach every site but we can reach sites that aren't blocked by censorship so we can only go to some sites that are chosen by government. Moreover, some companies from overseas such as Google and Yahoo! make a system like that. Yet, that kind of movement helps the Chinese government to control people. Therefore they have been accused. There are many “Web police” who are employed by government to monitor and scan websites in China. And, still now, some people are caught by the government because they are using the internet to sand “sensitive” information to foreign based websites.

Reference:
BBC News.(2006, May 29). Web censorship: Correspondent reports.

By Ayu