Censorship In China
China has one of the biggest censorships in the world. The Chinese government prevents and limits their Internet web searches for their citizens. The government track cellphone calls, electronic messages, e-mails, and access to the internet, in hope of finding any anti-government sentiment. The government's computers intercept incoming data and block keywords on websites, and according to the NewYork Times, the government's censors have prevented Google searches of the word "freedom." In March 2011, Google accused the Chinese government of disrupting its Gmail service because it made it appear as if there were technical difficulties, when really it was the censors blocking off the keywords. Google briefly closed it's Internet search service in March 2010, angry at the Chinese government for censoring their searches, but then reopened it again in June of 2010 because the Beijing government had renewed it's license to operate the website in China, even though it is still censored.
The Censorship machine has been operating since mid-2008 and it bans certain things of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. There are campaigns against pornography and other deviance websites. There was even a time in 2009, when the government made a software program called the "Green Dam-Youth Escort," on all Chinese made computers. This program monitored a user's every move. This was however, outlawed because of the angry citizens.
Recently, Harvard University and the University of Hong Kong, have teamed up together to use a new software to watch the censoring posts on Chinese social-media sites. They have discovered that 13 percent of all social-media posts in China have been censored, and that censors monitor activity surrounding 85 sensitive subjects, mostly government related. It is not even about the government being concerned about their image, they do not want any of the people sparking protests and going against them. The censors are now being closely watched by these teams.
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