Censorship In China Essay

China has been censoring websites form around the world for years now. Websites such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. are all unavailable in mainland China. Although the censorship of social medias is widely enforced, it is not necessary, since it is inconvenient for foreigners and tourists, unjust to the local people, and it under-educate the kids on China. Imagine an American tourist visiting China and wished to go on Facebook to message their family, who’s all the way back in America. As they attempt to log onto the website, they realize that the web page does not load. This is because China had blocked Facebook from users within mainland China. During only the first half year of 2015, China had welcomed 65,364,900 foreign tourists (including tourist form HongKong, Macau, and Taiwan since China’s censorship policies do not apply in those places) ("China Tourism”). Censoring social medias that may as well be a part of people of another country’s everyday life makes it exceptionally inconvenient and undesirable. The amount of foreign tourists had beed decreasing since 2011, and lifting the censorship …show more content…
When something big, whether or not it is good or bad, happens in China, don’t the citizens deserve to know? For example, the government attempted to cover up the Wenzhou train collision, which happened on 23 July 2011 and caused 40 deaths and injured 120. However, the more China tried to censor this accident, the more people were enraged. The Chinese government attempted to direct the people’s attention from the disaster to “stories that were extremely moving” (Murphy). People were furious. Many protested that they had a right to know the truths. Families of the unfortunate, especially, needed explanations and compensations from the government officials, which they did not receive. When mistakes are made, people deserve explanations and not

Show More