From the high speed train crashed in China last few months, there are huge voice on the Chinese censorship in the media. Especially the online media, the government is controlling the newspaper and the online media.

In China, a lot of online social networking site is already blocked by the government, like
Facebook and
Twitter. However, Chinese still building their own social networking site, like micro-blogging site. They said that Chinese government always hiding something from the public. Whenever a accident happened, state government will use the fastest force to cover up the tuth of the incidend. From the crash of high speed train, there were media said that there are a lot of reasons that the government are hiding. Media is a medium between government and public, why the Chinese government use media to tell the public the truth instead of hiding and blocking the news. A few newspaper column got report the swimming champion instead of the high speed train crash. Which news is more concern by puclic?
"Whatever (comments) you cut, we'll post again." One message on Weibo.
On the other hand, chinese internet have a filter on the message and information that about the government, all those information are all being blocked. Some of the messages are from China, people in China posting something on their blog and got deleted. The freedom of speech in China still need to be improve. Some of the news reporter reported something about China and didn't care about the censorship therefore he got detainted.
In an other way, China is blocking themself in information. They are not sharing with the world and Chinese will only trapped in Chinese news and information. They need to open up and wider the hearing and eyesight of Chinese.
Reference:
Australian, 2011'Chinese censorship push sets blogosphere alight', 27 October
Reuters, 2011'China train crash censorship scorned on Internet' 1August
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