China’s Internet Censorship: Ethics and Human Rights

China’s Internet Censorship: Ethics and Human Rights

Since the year 1998 china had begun censoring the internet from there citizen. At this time the regulations were not defined as to what was allowed and not allowed to be viewed on the internet at that time. Since then china spent a lot of time, money and man power blocking the free flow of communications and information to its citizens via the World Wide Web. In September 2002 the birth of the Golden shield projects also known as the great firewall of china. This was a firewall that was built to directly censor and block certain websites and key search words from china citizens. For years the concern for china’s citizens has grown, some…