I knew that China had some sort of censorship on their internet, but I didn’t know that it was that extensive. Also that there are millions of people that feel more like themselves online than in real life. I thought that was pretty strange.
My reaction was : I know that most of us don’t think about the Internet as an actual thing that can be blocked or altered. But this shows how much information can be put out into cyberspace and how it can spread virally around the world in suck a short amount of time. When Dodson was talking about the riots that kept of breaking out and how fast images, videos, and live-tweets were being sent out, it made me think that people feel oppressed enough that they can take to the Internet as a way to become individual journalists and reporters. The news comes straight from the source without a censorship, until the Chinese government steps in and blocks the social media: Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We can see how the Internet is becoming a sort of an omniscient being that can take on the various characteristics of the people that use it and abuse of it. Right now there is a trial occurring on a rape case that exploded on the Internet. The rally was started on the web (Tumblr is where I heard about it) and now has come full circle as people reacted just like the Human Flesh Searches. People on Tumblr are crazy psychopaths that can distribute information quickly.
As for pornography, let people be. People should be able to watch what they want. Also, they’re stopping a major industrial boom in their own country by blocking out pornography.
The way the chapter is pieced together is really enthralling. I started off by being completely blind-sided by this Zorro-masseur, then I was completely in her defense, rallying with the Internet. The piecing was a sort of fact-story-fact-fact-story. It was interesting noticing how the author was weaving everything together.
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