China censors info on U.S. Internet freedom policy

The article "China censors info on U.S. Internet freedom policy"
By: Geoff Duncan denotes the censoring of "links to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech on Internet freedoms...and even blocked searches for info on Clinton herself." Denoting China's continual regulation of the internet through keywords and internet filtering operations, it is not a surprise that a speech that promotes: free speech, transparency of government and individual user freedom on the internet would become the target of censorship by Chinese authorities.The article denotes that "China’s top microblogging service Sina has blocked searches on the terms “Hillary” and “Hillary Clinton” with a message that the search results were blocked due to Chinese laws and regulations."

Clinton's speech focusing in internet freedoms mentioned many insightful parallels to China's own stifling policies and actions towards its citizen's online speech and expression. However the main problem with Clinton's speech as the article denotes may be more in regards to her comments on a "dictator's dilemma" and its ramifications for long-term social and economic costs of denying citizens certain freedoms and suggesting that control can only be held back for a certain amount of time. The Chinese communist party has always held its regulatory nature as a way to maintain a "harmonious" society, a productive society and a economic influential society. To suggest that their tactics will lead them away from their National developmental goals is to suggest that all that they have done is incorrect. Though in China's case their regulations have slowly become an irritation to its citizens, going from simply a conditional consequence of economic prosperity to one of innovative stifler. This kind of thought though is not uniformed but with "The Chinese government consistently describes its citizens’ access to the Internet as free and unrestricted, while maintaining it has the right to block and restrict access to information it deems harmful or disruptive", the possibility in Clinton's speech may prove a hard a pill to swallow.

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