Weibo- Chinese Twitter

Lee, M.(2012, October 31). China’s Twitter-like Weibo poses danger, opportunity for new leaders. In the Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-31/business/sns-rt-us-china-congress-weibobre89u1n3-20121031_1_weibo-tony-saich-china-s-jiangxi.

The topic of this article is about Weibo, the Chinese Twitter like social media platform in China. The author’s purpose is to inform her audience about how Chinese authorities are using this service to continue to control political speech, even while the government appears to embrace the freedom of expression of other social media. They block and sensor information about low level officials and they increase the internet monitoring when political events are going to happen which causes the internet to slow down. This text shows how media censorship is different depending the countries governments. In the United States we have freedom of speech and other countries don’t like china. Is it right to control what people can and can’t.