Censorship In China

In the United States media the perception of China’s internet censorship is very similar throughout all major media sources and documents. There is mostly one narrative and one idea of internet censorship throughout American media. A lot of the United State media sources shared the same theme of freedom versus oppression. The media was shows that freedom is the liberty to search and post what you want on internet without repercussions. Where oppression is the not being able to access any information and being kept in the dark about what is going on around the world. The media used these to ideas to compare United States and China. The media in the US sees themselves as country associated with freedom, where they see China as an oppressive society without information and freedom of expression (Sydell). Many
Many writes only talk about the extremes of internet censorship and over dramatizing the facts. In the article “China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Companies Like Google”, a professor and specialist in Chinese internet censorship Xiao Qiang said, “Internet security is being raised to a much higher degree, it overrides the other priorities, including commerce or scientific research”( Bradsher). The media is giving a false impression to the readers that the only thing that the Chinese government care about is internet censorship. This opinion of China is the US media making a generalization about the facts and dramatizing an opinion. Many of the articles in United States media shared this generally negative tone throughout the article expressing many anti-censorship ideas and also always reporting on the negatives and bad outcomes of Internet censorship. Like protest and riots over censorship or antigovernment topics. In the New York Times, article “Chinese Web Censors Struggle with Hong Kong Protest”, it discusses information about a Hong Kong protest that was demanding more democracy. This caused China’s government to censor this information about the