Thursday, October 3, 2013

The power of Internet

The Internet can make China get better 

People always wants to make our life better, but how? Throughout the Internet. Although China-net is controlled by the government, it still can be a threat to some officers in China.

One of the best examples is the accident in Wenzhou a city located in the southern part of China in 2011.In jury, two trains in China crashed and many Chinese lost their lives in this accident. Right after this train accident, the authorities wanted to cover up the fact and  even wanted to bury the trains. As a result, it angers the Chinese netizens. Many netizens posted almost 10 million criticisms, even though there are no negative news about the officers in the traditional public media. One year later, the rail officer was sentenced to jail for 10 years, which is never happened during the Chinese history. 

You know that in China you have no rights to gather in the street, even if you just want to celebrate winning a football game. People in China have no platform to speak what they need. Here comes the Inthernet. Right now there are more than 300 milion internet users in China. With the restriction of the public media (TV, radio, and newspapers), the Internet can provide more information to the Chinese. Nowadays, people in China usually choose to get information from the Internet rather than books or TV. Since there are many cheating "datas" in China. For instance, in Beijing because the weather forecast uses PM10 to measure the pollution, it still seems misty outside but the weather forcast may encourage people to exercise outside. If you see the PM2.5 measured by the US Embassy, it will tell you it is toxic outside. These different datas made the Chinese to think if they are "cheated" and made the government to really care about the problem of pollution.

The society of the China could not change immediately but the the changes really happened on the land of China due to the China-net. I am sure the Internet can make our life better.


1 comment:

  1. That's interesting that the Chinese government tries to get people outside when the pollution could be at it's highest. It's good to see that people are fighting back against this media control and telling others about incidents in China that won't make the news.

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