Using the Internet in China: The Exception of Cheating
Google map, Google mail, and Facebook, … are nowhere to be found in China. For some reasons, the Chinese government banned them and encouraged their people to use domestic applications. When the Chinese government blocks the majority of Western portals, this leads people to start using illegal and unreliable technology to trick the government firewall. If cheating is described as simply as the action of someone who goes against some rules to earn benefits, this action of the Chinese using the Internet must be an exceptional example of cheating.
China is nearly a closed society. In the twenty-first century, when the others talk about freedom and the fight for freedom, Chinese are still under
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They do not create something new. It is just a copy of the outside original ideas. In the article “Cracking China”, Maria Aspan mentions this second reason: “Yet by blocking outside tech portals, the government has encouraged a thriving domestic internet ecosystem that effectively replaces most of the infrastructure that Western tech start- ups are built on: Instead of Facebook and its messaging, there’s WeChat. Instead of Google and its maps, Baidu” (68). It is more convenient to command the companies of your own country than the international companies. The government makes rules and people are forced to obey. Looking at a bright side, this action of the government can boost their internal economy since Chinese must use Chinese …show more content…
In the article “UN Thinks Internet Is a Human Right”, Tim Sandle says, “Due to the lack of access and suppressive tactics by certain governments, the United Nations (U.N.) has declared that “online freedom” is a "human right," and one that must be protected” (par.7). The Chinese government sets rules and ban anything that may cause them trouble, specifically people’s awakening. In the same article, Beech et al recall: “Chinese netizens who once sounded off on corruption or pollution—always hot topics in China—have been silenced. Some have even been imprisoned. Rather than camouflage controversial thoughts with pseudonyms, Chinese are now required to unmask themselves on social media. With imprisonment threatened for “online rumormongering,” the use of Weibo’s Twitterlike microblogs to uncover scandal has waned”