assignment 12

Reverse engineering Chinese censorship: When and why are controversial tweets deleted?China has firewalls and system blocks routed through all the computer systems. They can easily track you down by your IP addresses and gateways. This is how they track down and watch what people say. They are deleted and watched closely when or if you say something controversial to China’s government or anything that they don’t like. Revealed: How China censors its social networks.When tweets or posts harm harmony is also when they get deleted. That is how china sensors online information. These approaches are for the most part effective because the government is really powerful and people are scared to act up and do something. People break the censor by hacking or making fake accounts even using codes and just getting the word out there. There are many ways people to do this in China. What would the reaction be in this country if the government “froze blogs”, censored posts, or cancelled television talk shows?  What is the source of the differences of these reactions (if any)? In this country people would go nuts because it goes against freedom of speech and that’s one of our rights and you’ve seen what happens in history when rights get messed with in the United States.  There would be riots and uprising if the government did this. The source is that our government doesn’t have that much communistic power over cant and us control us to a certain distinct. Why do you think the Chinese government blocks Twitter and Facebook, but allows essentially the same Chinese equivalents? Does the success of Chinese censorship or the “letting off steam” approach play into their motivation? They block it because twitter expands to the whole world and people would figure out all the bad things they were doing and facebook you can post something and have people share it like it comment on it save it and that would spread like rapid fire if there was something they had that they were trying to stop from people to see.