Chapter 1

I didn’t know much about China before reading this chapter. I learned that their whole system and government are kind of crazy. The government officials seem to all be perverts, but I kind of like how the public had some control in their system through the internet. They were able to tell who the official was and also they were able to get the woman who was locked up, free. I think their government is messed up because of the fact that they tried to lock up a woman, who was obviously using self-defense against rape. I don’t like that the Internet was so limitless. Anyone could have access to your information and images, etc. I was kind of appalled at what I gathered from this chapter. The Internet was carefree, and the government seemed off its hinges. I think government censorship of pornography on the Internet is okay. I don’t have a problem with it really. Porn doesn’t affect my life, so why have it to begin with? I don’t understand people’s fixations with it when you could just read a book or actually meet another human being. My initial reaction to Dodson’s method of putting together this chapter was that it was accurate. It recognized the fact that China needs its mass communication, so that can’t shut it down or censor it completely.