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The Damming of China

The Chinese government has a lot of policies that conflict with the ideals and principles of the Western world – but that doesn’t mean that the Chinese government has any intention of altering the policies just because the US and Europe don’t agree on the Chinese legislation. The Dalai Lama and Tibet is one of the areas of extreme conflict where the Chinese government refuses to really even discuss the issue with the Western world. Now, a pressing issue concerning the freedom of expression in China is heating up the public debate as the Chinese government institutes new internet censorship laws that are designed to block the foreign online casinos from accessing the Chinese market. The Chinese police have taken a keen interest over the past several years in eliminating illegal online gambling rings. The “Green Dam” filtering technology is the star player in the new debate and issue.

Basically, the Chinese government is adamant that it has the right to protect citizens and children in particular from the dangers of online casinos by not only blocking the sites at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level, but by also now requiring that all computers sold in the country have the “Green Dam” software installed and integrated into the system. This software has been configured to block pornography and online casino gambling sites according to the Chinese government, and will not be used in the future to block other sites.

The international community feels that this strong step to block the online casinos is actually against the WTO policies concerning freedom of expression. Censorship of the internet is a huge concern in the global marketplace right now and these actions by the Chinese government indicate a dangerous precedence is forming for the justification of personal rights infringement on a global level.