The Lives of Others (Leben der Anderen, Das) is a great film about the horror of living under the suppression of the secret police forces. This movie makes me think of Ao Lee, one of the human rights fighters in Taiwan. He was in jail for six years and under the surveillance of secret police for three years. He lost his girlfriend, his youth and his creativity in jail. He never got the luck that the movie's main character has and escaped the fate of imprisonment. I will write more about him next time.
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
The most boring job in the world
On my trip to Shanghai in January this year, I found that China government blocked Wretch--the biggest web community in Taiwan. It's like censoring the whole Blogger.com! The same fate has happened on almost all the pictures on the Internet with titles like "bikini," "underwear," "thigh," or "swimsuit." The government not only trample the freedom of speech, they also deprive the pleasure of of every healthy man.
My friend from China tells me that China government hires thousands of people as Internet police task force. Their everyday job is to search keywords relating to contents that might "destablilize China's society and immoralize its citizens." I think they have the most boring job in the world.
Internet police force is a new form of security forces. These people are the reflection of their narcissistic boss. "The security forces ensure that the leader retains his celebrity, and in return the leader empowers the security forces (who often consist of young men from the countryside) to do whatever they want to the population at large," as James M. Curtis writes in "Why World History Needs McLuhan." But China's Internet police forces are no country bumpkins; they are a band of techno-savvy geeks who show Chinese people that everything is still under their control, even on the Internet.
I might work in China in the future, so writing this topic might jeopardize my future career. However, I believe that blogs will bring more accurate pictures of truth than the mainstream media, especially in China, where the mass media are manipulated by the government. Blocking blogs is unbearable.
My friend from China tells me that China government hires thousands of people as Internet police task force. Their everyday job is to search keywords relating to contents that might "destablilize China's society and immoralize its citizens." I think they have the most boring job in the world.
Internet police force is a new form of security forces. These people are the reflection of their narcissistic boss. "The security forces ensure that the leader retains his celebrity, and in return the leader empowers the security forces (who often consist of young men from the countryside) to do whatever they want to the population at large," as James M. Curtis writes in "Why World History Needs McLuhan." But China's Internet police forces are no country bumpkins; they are a band of techno-savvy geeks who show Chinese people that everything is still under their control, even on the Internet.
I might work in China in the future, so writing this topic might jeopardize my future career. However, I believe that blogs will bring more accurate pictures of truth than the mainstream media, especially in China, where the mass media are manipulated by the government. Blocking blogs is unbearable.
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