As some of you may know, China has blocked Google's search engine because Google has refused to censor its searches. Google has attempted to bypass China's Great Firewall by rerouting all searches to a server based in Hong Kong. It appears that China has now stopped all traffic to Hong Kong's servers. Google's stance on censorship is that they believe that no one should be refused information and China's censorship is preventing an informed populous.
It seems, now, that the censorship battle has spread to Australia. Most of the info is summed up in the article, so I won't write it out here. My question to you all: Should countries be censored, if yes, why and by how much? If no, why not?
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3 hours ago
2 comments:
I personally don't think that governments should censor anything except things that will put the whole nation in danger (such as essential war tactics). However, this probably is never going to happen. There is just too many politics that is easily accessible. We would like to think the US does not censor things as much anymore, but I still believe that our government is still censoring some stuff that may not necessarily be of national danger (if it gets leaked). However, China definitely is going to keep censoring and I doubt that google can do anything to dissuade them from doing so. Also, most people in China use the search engine "Baidu," anyways. It basically is a copy of google.
-Henry Zhang
Honestly I believe the internet leads to way too many problems. Though I also believe that government should NOT censor information or put anyone in jail for spreading CORRECT whether it hurts the government or not. Truth hurts sometimes and it isn't fair that they aren't subjected to some sort of criticizer. There are of course some subjects that should be censored for different ages.
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