Article from The Wall Street Journal.
China is censoring a YouTube video of a 12-year-old boy talking about constitutionalism. China is afraid that its people will get influenced negatively by watching the video because versions of the video with Chinese subtitles were spreading everywhere. According to the South China Morning Post, the video ranked third most popular. This caused Beijing to get nervous because they had been going against that topic for awhile already. Although Beijing got nervous, this definitely was not the first time information about Egypt was blocked. In 2011, street protests were forcing a strongman Hosni Mubarak from power. This caused major Chinese Internet sites to block searches for "Egypt." Then, in the same year, Chinese Internet users responded to the Arab Springs by the name of the "Jasmine Revolution," therefore causing censors on the topics of jasmine, even if it referred to the tea or flower. We all think that China is a strong country, but censoring everything tells us that they are the exact opposite.
I think that China is right to block search terms. However, it does restrict a lot and the people might rebel and rise against in a revolution.
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