MindBytes

I have already written an article about the monitoring and control of the internet by the Chinese government. Now an interesting finding from the research carried by Pew Internet and American Life Project ,shows that most chinese approve of the control of the government on the internet medium. Many Americans and people all over the world have been assuming that chinese arent happy about the Internet control , but they have been proved wrong. In the survey carried out ,

• 80% of the Chinese think that Internet should be managed and controlled

• 85% say that Government should be responsible for this

The report brings out various other statistics about the internet usage within China. The research report is available on the website for further study

I have been reading over lot of articles about the the Chinese control over media which includes all the mediums. Now when i actually think about the way this is being managed, it must be a heavy job for the law enforcers in the country. I beleive the Olympic games coordinators in the country have requested the Government to open up the internet gateways during the Olympic Games as a good will gesture. A company like Google, with a high global presence, has also been forced to listen to the Chinese terms and conditions to operate in the country i.e., the Google Search Engine results are completely filtered. If you actually search for any information on Tibetan protests , not a single article comes out of the Chinese Web portals . If everyone remembers, around last year, there was an article in the Indian News papers about the satellite image of the “Presidents Estate – Rashtrapathi Bhavans ” on Google Earth ( The software used to view the satellite images ). This was definetly a breach of National Security. Now when Google was told to drop such images , it never bothered to do so. Even today , on Google earth, one can easily sift through the satellite images of various places which are of National importance. Such is the India’s control over the media. Now coming back to Google, which proclaims itself to be a pure Organic Search engine and has denied on various occasions that the results are not tweaked and tampered……..this has to been seen with in a wider perspective.