85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship

cynagh0st writes "A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the Internet should be 'managed or controlled,' 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on Internet use over the last seven years in China. 'The survey findings discussed here, drawn from a broad-based sample of urban Chinese Internet users and non-users alike, indicate a degree of comfort and even approval of the notion that the government authorities should control and manage the content available on the Internet.' The report goes further into describing the divide in perspective between China and Western Nations on the matter and discusses the PRC's justifications for Internet control."

There's a very good joke in here..

[Maxo-Texas]

Something like... "The chinese national news reports tonight that 85% of chinese citizens like censorship".

42.5% of statistics

[Anonymous Coward]

are made up.

I'm sure

[NiZm0]

*Statistics compiled by the Ministry of Statistics.
*Ministry of Statistics Motto:We're here to make sure you're happy about your statistics.

Re:If you gave the same survey in the US or UK...

[stoofa]

The response from most in the UK would be "What can I win if I take part?"

As for the current government judging if people like the amount of control in their lives, they don't need to do any surveys. They just look at all the CCTV cameras and say "Well, most people are smiling so we can assume they like what we're doing."

Re:There's a very good joke in here..

[Pyrrhic Diarrhea]

Yet another badly titled slashdot article... would be more accurately titled: 85% of Chines Rikes Censorship. Yes, sadly, mod down for me being a retard. :)

Re:42.5% of statistics

[Poltras]

42.5% of statistics are made up.

And 102.5% of them are just plain wrong.

Re:Accurate?

[Oswald]

Um, "ingerence" is French. I had to get a Google translation of a web page to find out it meant "intervention."

The fun part is thinking of reasons you would have made that mistake. Perhaps posting on Slashdot, in English, makes you think of Americans. Perhaps every time the French people you know mention America it's in the same breath as "ingerence" because of our indiscretion in Iraq. Perhaps your brain did a double back flip with a twist and ended up inserting "ingerence" instead of "intervention" by some process of association. Perhaps.

Or perhaps everybody here says "ingerence" except the hicks I know. It doesn't matter, I'm just teasing anyway.

Re:the other 15%

[MindKata]

"They are however responding very well to the electroshock therapy and strong drugs to help them adjust to society."

That's the news according to the Ministry of Love. However the Ministry of Truth has decided that in this case, 85% is the same as 100%. Therefore hence forth, all news needs to be written as 100% of Chinese Likes Censorship.

Your failure to recognise this has been reported to the Thought Police, and room 101 is being prepared for your arrival.

Re:Unless they are older than 65...

[Beyond_GoodandEvil]

therefore we should have a Republic run by educated men
i.e. people who know the difference between are and our? Oh the delicious irony!

They have a point

[sabernet]

I surfed the Chinese internet and media and found nothing that would make me believe this practice isn't perfection itself.

The gov't also has these nice pamphlets handed out by the armed peace-protectors telling me so.

85% of Westerners

[BlueTrin]

do not read any reliable source of information and believe you can wage a war on terrorism.

Re:the other 15%

[morari]

Terrorism should be fought. But isn't asking the US DoD to do it somewhat a conflict of interests?

Re:Before you cast stones...

[melikamp]

Atheists themselves are to blame for that. What they need is a good platform. Something like an international organization, an Allied Atheist Allegiance, may be, with enough resources to throw behind a campaign. Then anything can happen, even an otter for president (as long as it is endemic to US).

Studies show made-up numbers more accurate...

[zooblethorpe]

First off, 99% of all polls are bullshit. They are not scientifically created and are almost always written to get the response the poller is looking for.

Scott Adams said it best: http://www.dilbert.com/2008-05-08/ [dilbert.com]

Cheers,

Re:the other 15%

[Kierthos]

Come on, it amounts to the same thing.

"Hi, I'm a shadowy figure, God knows who I really work for, but probably that government that controls nearly every aspect of your life, and I'm conducting a poll. Would you be in favor of continued government control of a method of communication that would be restricted to deliberately limit your view of the outside world, or should we just haul you away to a prison right now as a subversive?"

Re:In other news...

[Debug0x2a]

9 out of 10 doctors agree... the 10th doctor is a jerk.