China gives first response to Google threat

China has given its first response to the issue of google may pull out of China, At a regular foreign ministry news briefing, spokesman said: "China like other countries administers the internet according to law. ... ... China's internet is open, and the Chinese government encourages development of the internet." In this brief, the spokesman gave three points, firstly, any country controls the internet, secondly, the chinese government is willing to see the development of the internet, thirdly, the internet is open in China. The first two points may be true (not 100%), the third is definitely not.

Let's analyse the lie.

When the first point is concerned, it is true that every country has some types of "administer", however, it is not "control". despite of those China-like countries, in most countries, an adult can browse any webpage existing in the www that most others can, there are of course certain webpages are prohabited by most countries such like child porn, which is in fact, as I know the only web content that prohabited by most countries. And also most governments would not normally interference what an individul says in the internet, unless and until he would cause serious disorder and danger to the pubilc and/or, according to the law, national security, which is not very often.

Let see what Chinese government is doing. It holds the flag of "administer the indecent website and clean up the internet", people were told such action is for the public interests, meanwhile those brain-washed website post massive information to validfy its legitimation, such like the other countries (US and EU countries mostly) would do the same as chinese government does, however, the truth is US and EU countries would never be so strict so people could not even present their own idea through the internet, for instance, an individul can accuse US president and his speech would not be deleted by governemnt and his personal safety is guaranteed.

On the other hand, Chinese government has its very long history of censorship, besides that people who wrote something bad about the government may be in personal danger, the most recent example is Xia Bo Liu, who wrote a petition about the reform of political structure in China was sent to jail for 11 years with the verdict of endangering the state power.

Since people who are living in China are only able to open the web that the Chinese government allows (they won't know there is such wide area outside the control and also they might not interest in), and those the government prohabited are mostly in English which are not easily readable by most Chinese people, these two reasons give the ease to Chinese government to control the internet. But in any event, the first point that the spokesman given is untrue.

Secondly, the Chinese government is willing to develop the internet in China. This is also partially true. As a moden country, China has its own national security to concern, it needs to develop its moden technology to defend its safety, the rightness of doing so is no doubt. However, meanwhile, the development of moden technology does not improve the freedom of its people but has become more advanced way to control the mind of its people. For instance, Chinese government will require all the new computer purchased to be installed a spy software in advance in order to identify the location of people who are using that computer in the next few months (or in the near future); also, if someone wants to post something with so called sensitive words would be, in most case, automatically blocked, and those sensitive words could be very widely defined including the name of current and ex-leaders of Communist-party, those who are trying to use these words have to put a lot of *%#@$%^^ between every word. Are the people able to use US president's name in USA? This kind of joke can only exist in Communism Country (may be some religion-based countries, they are actually no difference as Communism is also one type of religions) while the government says it is willing to develop the internet.


Thirdly, the internet in China is open. I can only say he who says that is absolutely cheeky. Can Chinese people from China access to http://www.bbc.co.uk/, http://www.cnn.com/ or http://www.epochtimes.com/ by normal way? Not a chance. As a tradition, communist party is always telling the lies regardless what people hear and see.


As usual, the foreign ministry and all other departments of China are not telling the truth, they are just living in all the lies, without those lies, without those speech control, without those internet restriction, they cannot even live one day longer. That is the truth of constitutional rights in China. The fact is google is going to join a combat with a lie-maker, which is not easy.