BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao launched a campaign to rid the country's sprawling internet of "unhealthy" content and make it a springboard for Communist Party doctrine, state television reported.
With Hu presiding, the Communist Party Politburo – its 24-member inner council – discussed cleaning up the internet, state television reported. The meeting promised to place the often unruly medium more firmly under propaganda controls.
The full story is at:http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4036816a4560.html
Does the Chinese government have any hope of succeeding
a) in the short term?
b) in the long term?
Or will the nature of the medium defeat the efforts of the controllers?
3 comments:
No hope whatsoever. While Google may obey, there are always going to be people who refuse to bow to censorship.
There are so many ways to get round website blockers etc. It wont work at all.
Throughout history people, like Thom said, have refused to submit to censorship and I think this will continue into the future.
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