Sunday, December 1, 2013

Guess What? China Has Cleaned Up The Internet

The Chinese government has announced that it has cleaned up the internet.  Scrubbed that sucker clean of all the negativity out there.  What does this mean for you dear user?  No more wild conspiracy theories about how the Goa'uld have taken control of the United Nations or Fox News.  You will longer be able nude photographs of your favorite celebrities or their hope to make a comeback porn video's Paris Hilton.

Yes, the Communists will no longer allow you to make up rumors about whomever you happen to have a hate on for this week.  Be it Kim-Jong un or that clown who came to your birthday party when you were six.  It's all coming to an end thanks to the Ms. Manner's wanna be's of China's Communist Party.


Beijing launched the campaign this summer, arresting dozens of people for spreading rumors, creating new penalties for people who post libelous information and calling in the country's top bloggers for talks urging them to guard the national interest and uphold social order. At the same time, government agencies at all levels have boosted their online presence to control the message in cyberspace.
"If we should describe the online environment in the past as good mingling with the bad, the sky of the cyberspace has cleared up now because we have cracked down on online rumors," Ren Xianliang, vice minister of the State Internet Information Office, said during a rare meeting this week with foreign journalists.
The good mingling with the bad.  He makes sound so nefarious and dark like somehow you can control people's emotions.


A study by an Internet opinion monitoring service under the party-owned People's Daily newspaper showed the number of posts by a sample of 100 opinion leaders declined by nearly 25 percent and were overtaken by posts from government microblog accounts.
"The positive force on the Internet has preliminarily taken back the microphone, and the positive energy has overwhelmed the negative energy to uphold the online justice," said Zhu Huaxin, the monitoring service's general secretary, according to a transcript posted by state media.
Like you can prevent people from posting negative opinion pieces about the Communist Party and the government at large when they feel aggrieved by policies instituted by its unelected leaders who answer to no one but themselves.


"If there's no channel for the public to express themselves, they may take to the street," said historian and political analyst Zhang Lifan, whose online accounts were recently removed without warning — possibly because he had shared historic facts that the party did not find flattering.
"The governments also can take pulse of the public opinion, but if no one speaks up, they will be in darkness," Zhang said. "It is so odd they are covering up their eyes and blocking their ears."
  Revolutions have been instigated because the populace no longer believed in government or its ability to address their concerns.  

No matter the China's leaders think one cannot scrub the internet of opinion which doesn't meet your standards of discourse.   People being who they are will find ways   around the censorship and eventually the facts are exposed to wider audience.  



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