Internet in China

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The internet as Americans and millions and perhaps billions of people around the world have used the internet freely and uncensored, but China and a few other countries have been trying really hard to censor/control the access of  content that it's citizens are allowed to view. In the United States about 78% of the populaation has access or willingly use the internet compared to the 36% of China. It's important to remember that those 36% are almost double the amount users than that of the United States.

This attempt at controlling the internet by the Chinese Government has some IT companies worried and abandoning the 1.3 Billion potential consumers within the country. Google,Inc. is a prime example of a leading IT company that has left China after it was being continuously hacked and told to censor and block out certain websites as part of the agreement between the Government and Google.  Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google is worried that Governments throughout the world will try to exert more control over the access of content that it's citizens have.

The Chinese government does not plan on easing up on it's endeavor of controlling its citizens access to content that paints the government in a bad light or gives its citizens knowledge about life in other countries. Since 2010 the government has been blocking search engine searches for the word "freedom". This type of censorship is worst because it does not allow for its citizens to compete in the future with the rest of the world in tech jobs because it would mean having big brother over your shoulder as you are working. Censorship has no place on the internet of the 21st century and ahead.