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).
Pro
The United States government adding in a policy that influences overseas sales of systems could be a good thing for the people of china. With the sales of American based routers it could lead to more human rights. With this comes the freedom of speech and educates the people more about local and worldwide news. With the censorship in China being so heavily enforced it gives the citizens a feeling that the Government is hiding something from them and will not let them speak their minds. The answer to the problem is a democracy such as the United States needs to step in and help the less fortunate. Helping can mean a lot in the case of the Chinas great fire wall. From the Cisco leak it stated “The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans’ technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world. Companies including Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have faced criticism for cooperating to various degrees with the repressive Chinese regime, and the document leak on Monday came one day before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing into U.S. technology companies’ participation in foreign government censorship programs.” With this being said it shows that American corporations are involved in the firewall but for a negative reason. They are only in there to make sales but the companies said they gave the routers to the country but didn’t set the restrictions on. Being an American company the government should get involved and make the country of china follow are rules for internet censorship to improve the lives of the Chinese people. This will also allow both economies to start to improve due to the fact it will intermix the two countries in an area where we had are differences. All people are created equal and deserve the same rights. It should matter were your born on the map. Everyone should have the same tools to use and same advantages for success.
Con
Some people say that if the United States were to pass a policy it would possible be a negative. China is a country just like the United States of America and we wouldn’t like it if a country tried to change the way we run things. Yahoo and Google both stated along the lines that they must follow and respect the rules of China. If the government of the USA were to propose a law to make internet censorship in china illegal, there still is a great chance it wouldn’t pass or come into effect for many years. Some people want to keep the way of the fire wall because it allows their kids to study more and not be distracted by Faecbook and other networks that American kids use every day. From one of the articles the ministry of china stated “The Chinese Foreign Ministry lashed out Friday against criticism of China in a speech on Internet censorship made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, calling on the United States government “to respect the truth and to stop using the so-called Internet freedom question to level baseless accusations.” We must respect the government of China because that’s how they feel their country runs the best.
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