Thursday, October 15, 2009

Their Economy's Great, Yeah, But What About Freedom?

Although China is seemingly the leader economically in the world right now industrially, as its totalitarian rule has made the government able to regulate all product and survive through the economic recession the world has been going through over the past year. Although it may seem like China is the place to be, with all this greatness, life across the Pacific is not exactly 'the land of the free.'

Basically any and all contact with the world outside of China, or any way to see how much better life could be is cut off by the government. Popular sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and even Youtube are all unavailable in China. There is no solid reason given by the government as to the reason for these censors, but basically they are just there to only allow the flow of government approved information to go in and out of China, so the only thing the people see is what they are supposed to see.

Like I said, although China may be forming into the world's biggest superpower economically, you still want to stay away unless you want to see only what you are 'supposed' to see.

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