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What's behind Google farce
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-03-22 17:53
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No absolute internet freedom available,Chinese Netizen enjoy unprecedented freedom.
2010-03-20
The Chinese are enjoying unprecedented freedom in the country's more than 5,000 years of history. All the country's newly found wealth has been created by the hands of the ordinary Chinese. The country would not have been able to perform an economic miracle if its people were unhappy with their administration and the social and political conditions.
So if the vested interests' accusation that the Chinese government censors the Internet to spy on its own people does not originate from ignorance then it is a white lie and a malicious attack.
Internet should promote civility
2010-02-22
Does not your citizenry and your government have a reasonable interest, indeed, responsibility, in seeing to it that the Internet furthers civility rather than erodes it? Enriches young minds rather than poisoning them?
I don't pretend to know exactly where that line is, but I believe it exists and that it must be thought of. China does not need to repeat our mistakes. We need to continue to learn from each other, adopting the best practices of each.
Internet should be free but regulated
2010-01-26
Some statistics would help us understand the free internet in China. Until the end of 2009, China had 384 million Internet users, and their number is growing by 200,000 a day. Many international observers have even proclaimed China as the country where the Net is developing most actively.
In fact, the Net has always been open in China. Some examples from last year will prove the point: Several incidents, including corruption and efforts to seek social justice were exposed or highlighted by netizens, reflecting the strength of the Net. Countering corruption online is the in thing in China. The authorities recognize it as such, too, and accept it as an effective way of fighting corruption.
Don't impose double standards on "Internet freedom"
2010-01-24
It is common practice for countries, including the United States, to take necessary measures to administer the Internet according to their own laws and regulations.
Necessary regulation of the Internet is a consensus of the entire international community for the sake of healthy development of the Internet. No responsible country takes a laissez-faire attitude towards the use of the Internet.
2010-01-23
There is no such thing as absolute Internet freedom, just as there is always a limit to whatever one does in any society. Any call for Internet freedom must be made with the knowledge that an orderly and safe flow of information on the Internet is the very guarantee for that freedom.
We know too well that there would be no freedom at all on the Internet if all information was allowed to indiscriminately flow online and Internet users did not have any sense of safety for online activities.
2010-01-22
The Chinese Internet society is expanding in terms of volume and power.
Besides that, Chinese netizens are flexing their muscles. As more and more news is exposed and hyped by Internet instead of traditional media, the Internet has grown to be an independent source of news and a main channel for grass root netizens to express their opinion and participate in the public affairs. Netizen's supervision has helped improve the governance and achieve judicial justice.
2010-01-20
Chinese government should allow Google the freedom to leave China since it claims to be a free market economy. Even though I wish people in the world could have unfiltered access to information, it will never happen simply because of our inability to process the infinite amount of information in this world. There is so much information and knowledge out there in the world, and we have too limited time and energy to pay equal attention to everything in the world. We can only choose to care about some of the things and ignore other things. This is where our bias comes into play.
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