85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship

cynagh0st writes "A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the Internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on Internet use over the last seven years in China. 'The survey findings discussed here, drawn from a broad-based sample of urban Chinese Internet users and non-users alike, indicate a degree of comfort and even approval of the notion that the government authorities should control and manage the content available on the Internet.' The report goes further into describing the divide in perspective between China and Western Nations on the matter and discusses the PRC's justifications for Internet control."

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Shock Horror Probe!

[L4t3r4lu5]

Survey of internet usage in heavily monitored society by outsider says all those inside "like" being monitored.

More at 11...

Re:the other 15%

[TubeSteak]

That is kinda like asking Americans if they think terrorism should be fought, Yes

and if so should it be done by the US DoD. I seriously doubt you'd get 85% of respondants saying the DoD should be fighting it.

It's a loaded question designed to get a specific answer from a select group. And which select group is that?
Maybe 20%~30% of the population?

What a poor analogy.