At first, I was thinking of writing about immigration or abortion for my Rhetorical Analysis because they seem to always be some of the main topics of controversy in our nation. Then I started looking into Censorship in China and it really caught my attention.

In China, you search certain things and all that comes up is a blank page that reads “Page Cannot Be Displayed”. The government has constantly controlled it’s countries people by hiding these things from them. In 1989, Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China became known around the world for a huge massacre. If you search for Tiananmen Square Massacre, nothing comes up. The Chinese government has done everything in their power to erase the fact that the government killed thousands of people that day. I’m invested and interested in learning more about Chinese censorship because I believe that everyone should have the right to be knowledgeable especially about the history of their country. Recently, I’ve signed into tumblr and noticed that there is forms of censorship. If you search certain things, they don’t come up so in that way I can relate and hope to discuss that further in my analysis by using these ideas to identify different perspectives about each.

The Chinese government also blocks and censors specific websites like: Google, Wikipedia, Wall Street Journal, RedTube, LinkedIn and even Facebook. I want to further discuss their form of reasoning behind blocking all of these websites. It surprises me that Facebook and Google, websites that are so prominent and important in our society, are censored. I would expect people to try and find a way around it or question it as much as outsiders, like me, do. I also hope to discuss the Chinese government’s struggle to continue this censorship. As the years go on and more people become educated, more protests begin to break out fighting for democracy as China scrambles to keep the public in a bubble.