China's cyberwar on free speech

Ruiming Li

CNN published the update in March 25, 2015 which mentioned that Chinese government declared that Internet is the new battlefield to against “pornography and unlawful information”. However, the major target that Chinese focuses on is freedom of expression.

The censorship online is one of the control mode in China to stifle any expression which is criticize the government and China Communist Party. The censorship system checking the phrases online on social media, and forced close them or delate the information based on the phrases which is possible to harm the stable of China regime and ruling party. For some international websites such as Wikipedia, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, they are still blocked by Chinese government because of some topic or information on them are forbid in China, such as Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 or the recent Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. The national and social stability are the guise, in fact, the suppressing to legitimate opinions of public is a serious issue that influence the freedom expression in China.     

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/opinions/china-internet-dissent-roseann-rife/