Citizen Journalism Combating Chinese Censorship

teh_commodore writes to tell us that Breitbart has a look at how Citizen Journalism is shining a whole new light on China. "Recognizing the threat of China's growing online community, Chinese President Hu Jintao called in January for the Internet to be 'purified', and the government has since launched a number of online crackdowns. [...] 'One cannot truly say that the Internet in China is becoming more and more free, because at the same time as the development of citizen journalists, the government finds ways of blocking or censoring content,' Pain said."

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Oh NO.

[Mockylock]

What would Al Gore do?

Surely the inventor of the internet would have some solution to the communist censorship.

Have any of you even been to China?

[wr0x2]

There is a lot more freedom there than you would think from reading the western press. Sure, they have censorship, but it's bypassable. China is experiencing unimaginable economic growth, and with that will eventually come some degree of increased personal freedom. I have a hard time explaining it to people who have never been there, but there there is much more "general freedom" in countries like china than in the US. Perhaps someone who understands can explain it better than me.

Just how free is the US anyway? Freedom to assemble is regulated, and freedom of speech, although certainly much greater than in china, is not absolute. We can criticize the president and our other government officials all we want, but nothing changes. Let's think about our own country (and change it, if you like) before we go on bitching about something that's not ours.