Freedom of expression and censorship in China

The Chinese Communist Party exerts if not completely then near complete control over the country’s three hundred and eight television stations with the addition of two thousand one hundred and nineteen newspapers. Furthermore, these are the primary media available to the majority of their citizens. In addition to this, over one hundred million users on the internet is closely monitored by the state. Any politically threatening website is blocked. Any uncensored satellite television is illegal to the public not to mention that access to any foreign media is also censored.  

In the month of May 2012, Google released its new cloud-storage the “Google Drive”. This may seem to be what people are hoping to tryout but however; in China five hundred million users may never have a chance to try it out. This is due to the restriction that the state has over their citizens. Along with internet sites such as YouTube, Google plus, Dropbox, Facebook and much more Google Drive was then banned. All of this combined evidently speaks for itself that there is no or very little ways that one can spread their words if not through the word of mouth. This shows how significant censorship can be towards the media which can widespread different opinions and perspectives.

Though the state introduces ways to compromise the situation these ideas are not significant enough for expressions to be expressed freely. An example of this is how they would make web clones. It is basically a cloning of a Western website with a key difference which is making every single detail of the website legal.

As a result of everything mentioned earlier, the Chinese people are not allowed to express their ideas for feelings with freedom. However, looking it on the other hand foreigners are also being limited as they cannot express their feelings to the Chinese citizens or at least their words cannot reach them. This is something small that can turn into something way bigger, therefore, we should allow every single person on this planet to have the opportunity to express their ideas or feelings freely and for it to reach everyone when it is seek for.