User:Rukshini/sandbox

Cyberspace Administration of China

The censorship of content visible to Chinese citizens online is heavily regulated in China.

Definition of Cyberspace Administration of China

Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is the virtual world of computers that is accessible to the public in which the administration of China has full power over the flow of information that is allowed to be viewed by their citizens. Cyberspace can be seen as being a cyber world because it allows for people from all over the world to connect allowing it to be easy for a flow of communication and information. The Cyberspace Administration of China “adheres to scientific and effective internet administration by law, strives to improve an internet administration system combining laws and regulations, and administrative supervision and social education."

“There is a slight administrative differences between commercial and non-commercial internet information services in China."  This allows for China to implement a licensing system for what they allow from different countries and how much information they would like to share with the people in their country and outside their country. The government feels the need to have control over the cyberspace and what the public is accessible to where they are able to help protect and serve their country in a professional manner. This is why they have an administration system for their cyberspace so that they are able to help filter out the information that is not needed or irrelevant to the public. This allows them to secure the flow of information in the cyberspace. “In the Chinese philosophy, cyber freedom and cyber security are interwoven and are complementary to each other. Without security, the free flow of information will lose its meaning as  it might be obtained and even abused by anyone else." This allows for people in China to feel safe and secure allowing for all there trust to lye in there government system that in implemented to their nation.

China's Administration Access Control of the Cyberspace

• The government of China had implemented a firewall to the entire country where it allows for control connections with the rest of the world's Internet and to help monitor the content that is generated over the internet.
• The Chinese government place firewalls and filter and a small amount of paths that allows its administration to connect to the rest of the world's network. The reason they place these firewalls and filters is because its an effective and low-cost allowing the government to have control of clandestine traffic analysis and content monitoring .
• "The insertion by the government of technical devices to enable governments to exercise control for political purposes or to protect the integrity of the communications system is one way in which the original features of the Internet may be compromised" (Paul, 2002).
• "In 2008, the scale of Chinese citizens expanded to 298 million with a coverage rate of 22.6%, which surpassed the world average of 21.9% (CNNIC report, 2009). The significance of the internet in China has not received the attention it deserves (Tsui, 2005). To begin with, the assumption that internet technology should lead to democratization in China restricts analyses to one particular teleological frame (Tsui, 2005, 2008). Chinese views of technology have historically contradicted western assumptions about the democratic potential of the internet."

China’s Cyber Legislation, and internet administration with the increase of ICTs

China abides by the principle of scientific internet administration by law and these laws are specific to the national conditions that China wishes to follow. These are laws that are not followed by everyone this is their own set of laws they have in their country that allows for them to have a Cyberspace. “China advocates the free and secure flow of information in cyberspace, which is just like the two wing bird." This allows for there to be a presence on the internet that the administration of China makes sure that the information that their citizens are receiving in the cyberspace is a secure flow of information that the public should know about with no cost attached to it. This allows for it to be possible because for the growth in technology and information that is being provided on it.

With the rapid growth and changes with our information and communication technology (ICTs) “China also tries to keep with the times in its cyber legislation and internet administration. On the one hand, it sometimes revises the established laws and regulations to make them fit the new ICT environment. On the other hand, the legislative body of china also makes new laws and regulations to tackle the new problems and new phenomena brought about by the internet and ever-changing ICTs, in particular, to deal with those negative impacts upon the political, economic, social and cultural life of the Chinese people." There also has been a rapid growth in the amount of people that are on the internet in “China, which now has close to 400 million internet users, has become something of a cyber superpower." This is why the government in China feels they need the administration of cyberspace.

Cyberspace Security Administration of China

Overload of Information to the Public

“As more cases of internet users’ information being leaked are emerging, the protection of citizens’ online privacy is becoming high on the Chinese government’s agenda, because it is closely connected with the people’s sense of security and confidence in the internet." This allows the government to watch over the citizens in China because the administration of cyberspace has a chose watch over and to make sure that they country is being protected at all times.

Protect The Public

The Cyberspace security administration of China has a set of laws that they follow which allows them to protect their public. An example of this would be “On September to November 2013, the State Internet Information Office (SIIO), the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Central Committee of the communist Youth League of China and the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) jointly initiated a two-month campaign dubbed “Green Web” to lighten supervision of websites and cell phone applications to fight lewd content and aggressive remark aimed at young people." Showing that the government in China feel that they have polluted the Internet and this is why the administration feels is not safe and secure to the public so they filter it out.

"Traditional Chinese social norms do not treat intellectual property rights (“IP rights”) as an important issue" This showing that China does not use any kind of IP rights which allows them to regulate the internet. When looking at the United States there social aspects are highly valued where there understanding of IP rights. IP rights serves an important where it allows for controlling the internet. There should be a regional differences that is implemented by two different countries when looking at the internet control regulations In different countries.

The Chinese government has a strict set of rules that they abide by and these rules that they have to maintain control over the cyberspace:

• Domain name registration
• E-commerce taxation
• Encryption
• Internet policing
• Monitoring web media

The reason to why these rules were implemented is because the government feels that the power of the internet can be saved and also fight the corruption that occurs in there country.