Freedom of speech as well as access to uncensored information are rights that American citizens have access to that can occasionally be taken for granted. In many countries, citizens are not permitted nearly as many rights, freedoms, or even privileges' that many Americans enjoy every day. One country that functions almost as America's polar opposite regarding the freedom of speech as well as protections against media censorship would be China.
China is one country that is well know for actively stifling civilian access to information as well as enacting strict censorship on media and foreign information. The country has become so strict with censorship as to reach the bottom five of one hundred and seventy nine ranked countries in press freedoms according to the ranking on RSF Reporters Without Borders .
Recently, one of China's most forthright daily newspapers was disbanded following the conclusion of its work with an enormous tech company named Tencent says the South China Morning Post.
The state-owned paper now controls daily managing in the previously vocal news outlet named Wevideo, with the outlets former nature of outspoken news coverage being restricted greatly with authorities squeezing domestic media underfoot to an even greater degree.
This is indicative of a growing trend in China of a loss of journalistic freedom as well as the crushing of individual thought and alternative opinions. With the growth of government power, a decline in outspoken journalists and news outlets has occurred as overwhelming government control allows the Chinese government to dictate and heavily restrict information within the country.
It is clear the China endeavors to greatly restrict access to news media as well as access to alternative opinions that don’t promote the ruling party.
This aversion to information for the people has spread to the Internet as well. Individuals in China are not permitted to search information freely with no forms of restrictions. In fact there are allegedly sixty six thousand rules or regulations that strictly dictate and limit what information people are permitted to access through search engines.
China allegedly has a censorship apparatus that is capable of maintaining a stranglehold over searches in search engines that may be designated to be in contrast to the political views of the Communist party. The engine can then provide no results whatsoever or a limited supply of results related to the searched content that are likely curated by the political beliefs of the government in China, as to avoid opinions that oppose the ruling party from being viewed by the population.
The New York Times goes into detail pertaining to the sixty six thousand rules and regulations that the Chinese government utilizes in its censorship apparatus to impeded the spread of information into the country.
This overall trend of censorship with information and media demonstrates the law of the land being completely subject to the Chinese government's will to determine what information is permitted to reach the hands and minds of its citizens, going to great lengths to restrict what they can say, what they can do, and even what they can think.
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