Internet Restrictions in China
The United State constitution protects Americans right to
free speech or is supposed to. Although we have laws that allow every citizen
to practice free speech the government still restricts certain media (FCC).
China on the other hand has taken this to a whole new level. China as laws that
allows the government’s to monitor and restrict internet use to its ISP (internet
Service Providers) and citizens. As human beings most people believe that when
we are born we have certain rights in this world, right to life is one and so
can argue freedom of speech could be one. I think China is making many ethical
mistakes by restricting internet use. From a utilitarianism perspective
restricting the internet will have negative effects on the majority of society.
Not allowing equal opportunity to education and ability to use it to gain employment,
internment, and communication. Other countries have different cultures and
societies and for us Americans to say what china is doing is wrong, but form a chainman’s
perspective are they? Supposedly one benefit to china restricting site on the
internet will help promote Chines to buy Chines product boosting their economy.
Some people may just see the one side and say that’s bad, but there are some obvious
benefits that could come from a country restricting the internet content. In my
opinion the cons out weigh the pros by far. Restricting internet content I
think is in violation of our human right to free speech. Even with restrictions
there can be ways around them as explained in the article in the link below.
China is famous for centuries now at keeping outsiders out. Look at history you
have one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments with the building of the Great Wall of China. This wall was
to help protect but mainly keep the Chines in and the Mongols out. Now we have
internet restrictions which kind of do the same thing ironically. Do you think
governments should have the right to control internet content?
P.S. Thanks for reading my blog this semester. The main
point was to engage with readers about current events that deal with computer
ethics. I hope you enjoyed some of the discussion on here. Until next have a
good one.
I think being able to watch what people are doing over the Internet is very unfair. People should have the right to privacy and what they do is their business. When the government starts to take control of that people loose the opportunity to do things because they know that they are potentially being monitored on what they do online.
ReplyDeleteWould you consider free speech to be a fundamental human right? While it's certainly protected in the United States, there are many countries where speaking your mind can be a punishable offense. Personally, I think it could be seen as part of some core values that we consider universal, like security or freedom.
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