BlogPosts 7 & 8
Following are the two debate queries. Please provide both sides of the issue for each query with references. (1000 words).
1.) The US government should institute formal policy that bars overseas sales of systems that provide targeted Internet surveillance if such systems are used to violate human rights or freedom of speech (such as the current internet censorship in China).
To me, the topic on whether or not the US should institute formal policy
that bars overseas sales of systems that provide targeted Internet surveillance
if such systems are used to violate human rights or freedom of speech is
ticky-tacky. On one hand this could be very helpful for it will limit
the amount of censorship that the Chinese government could perform as
well as giving the Chinese government less power
over their citizens in a social media aspect. We are a country that is
based off of liberty, freedom, and opportunity and should not let any other
country tell us how to treat a human’s rights and beliefs by helping them in
their communistic world. As a country based on democracy, we should not help
and manufacture products to countries such as China who deprive people of basic
inalienable, such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to
believe whatever you want to believe. This would give China a big blow seeing
as we are one of their best allies and traders. Hopefully that would change and
speak out to the rest of the world what is really going on in China and
changing the government and lifestyle there like what happened in Egypt earlier
this year.
However, if we do hold our companies to not sell to China, then we are
no better than China is. Companies should sell to whoever they want no matter
how much of a different society they run. No matter how you look at it,
companies should sell to countries that are willing to buy so that they can
sustain and stand under this bad economy, not to mention that it also helps us
as a national economy. Speaking of economy, not only would we be like China if
we deprive our companies of selling overseas, but we are in major debt to China
for picking us up while we had our economic collapse in 2008. China was the
largest single shareholder to the US government with a ridiculous 36% compared
to all other supporters. If we go against China, then they can just pull the
plug on us now and we would be screwed for lack of better words. We need to
keep our economic status up to par and we need China’s help to much of most
Americans’ distain. So it’s not like we can bit the hand that feeds us while we
are in debt to them.
2.) The evolving capabilities to speak out and criticize the Chinese government using microblogs and other Internet social media will lead to more and greater freedoms for the Chinese people.
The topic on evolving capabilities to
speak out and criticize the Chinese government using microblogs and other
Internet social media is also a tricky one to side with. On one side this is
great for people to let the world know how terrible China really is as a society.
If you get everyone informed on how bad China is, then countries will second
guess whether or not to help out China as well as having people not go there
and making China look unattractive.. As we all know, words are a powerful thing
and can change the minds of so many people. Who knows, doing this might change
the government like how Twitter and Facebook essentially changed the government
in Egypt.
However, seeing as this scenario
involves people in China, this could create more problems than solutions for
the Chinese people by creating very strict disciplinary actions for the
government to issue. The government can create laws towards freedom of speech that
if they break those laws then costly and dangerous penalties would be put in place
to those who oppose the system. This also might make the government take away
other rights and liberties to the Chinese people that are costly to them and
not as big to the government. Also, seeing as we all saw how communism works
back with the Russians, China will not stop in being a communistic society. The
only way that the people can maybe have a chance into changing the government
system is to do what the Egyptians did early this year and that is to riot,
which gives up so many lives. But the Egyptians’ transition to new governments
is completely different from what China wants to do. Communism is like a hungry
beast that if you don’t feed it, then it will stop at nothing to satisfy itself
by doing anything to get what it wants, even if it means giving up lives.
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