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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[Tom]

Interesting to read all the "this can't be true" comments. In painstaking detail every possible flaw of the study is pointed out.

But what if?

What if there is not flaw, not oppression, no faking?

Are you living in denial? Denial that other people elsewhere actually might believe different things? Can you allow other people to have different values and priorities? When the french value honesty over oil, america runs a huge campaign against them. But compared to many asian and african cultures, the differences between french and american culture is tiny.

It's not unbelievable that the study could simply - you know - true.

The Whole Story.

[BuckaBooBob]

85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship

  When asked at gunpoint if they agree that Internet Censorship is a good thing for China 85% of people agreed.

In other news.. During a Internet related survey 15% of the people surveyed were terrorists involved in a plot to undermine the governments authority and its ability to protect its citizens from disinformation.