Censorship In China

      Annually, the Chinese government tries to block foreign media a couple weeks before the anniversary of the June 4^th, 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This year is the 25^th anniversary of the Tianamen Sqaure massacre.  The professional networking site with 300million users, LinkedIn in China, has been censoring anything related to the Tiananmen massacre. Reports of references to it being blocked can be found inside mainland and outside of China.  The LinkedIn’s management does this because of “the specific requirements within China to block certain content.”  The concept that is unclear is that they censored the content in Hong Kong as well. Hong Kong is territorially a part of China, but it is under the “one country, two system,” regulation where it allows freedom of speech, press and publication under Hong Kong Law.

     The internet should be a free place where you should be able to post anything you want. Places, like China, use censorship to hide the truth from the public.  This story is another example of what censorship does to people. Google back in 2010 has removed its search engine from China because they did not want to deal with the China’s censorship and privacy demands. Governments like these try to hide what happened because they are scared of the power of the internet. If you look back at the Arab spring, their main weapon was the internet; they posted what they can to show us what was happening around the world. 

http://qz.com/216691/linkedin-is-censoring-posts-about-tiananmen-square-even-outside-mainland-china/
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