I believe that the Chinese censorship is both wrong and ineffective. First of all, assumption is that censorship is being implemented as to prevent a revolution, since it struggles witha serious overpopulation problem, which also means a very large number of people who would revolt. Censorhip is inneffective with preventinga revolution because even though it would be much more difficult to spread negative information about the government, it in itself will create alot of animosity towards it. Also, people are resiliant when it comes to spreading information, so people will fight to spread what the government wants so badly from being released to the public. Finally, just because true facts are being restricted, false facts that are negative towards the government can still thrive. When facts are always being blocked and contained, people will be more apt to believe any of the few things they hear that justify their beliefs, and are also less likely to believe any good things they hear about their government, whether they are obviously true or not, and therefore will be more apt to ignore them altogether.
Censorship is not only ineffective, but is also wrong. People are entitled to their beliefs and opinions, so they should be able to speak them freely to others. Censorship can be used to censor anything that is seen as harmful to the country, so it does not just stop at people voicing out against their government, it will also be used to censor any material that may even just justify in any small way negative feelings towards the government, which almost anything can be argued as doing this. People will develope their feelinsg towards their government with it's approval or not, and that makes it difficult for the people, because they are not allowed to express their strong feelings in any way without facing serious consequences. Censorship is wrong because no one is immune to its punsihment, no matter how much of an upstanding and law-abiding citizen you are, your opinions can still develope into something that makes it difficult to still follow the censorship laws of the country.
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