Baidu accused for the violation of free speech online in US

 

A group of New York Residents is suing Baidu, for alleged violation of the US c onstitution .

 

In the suit filed in the US district court in Manhattan, eight plaintiffs accused Baidu of having violated their right of free speech by excluding their writings and video about human rights and democracy in China from their search results . The filing also lists the Chine state as a co-defendant.

 

But Beijing government dismissed this lawsuit later, arguing that its management of the internet is in line with the international practice and a sovereign act. “According to the international law, foreign courts have no jurisdiction”.

 

In the year of 2003, China state built GFW( Great Firewall). The GFW will prevent Chinese netizens from searching for the pages of discussing the human rights, democracy, and the news that will threaten the CCP’s dominating government . And the GFW also forbidden Chinese netizens to access youtube, twitter, and facebook.

 

In the past, China state’s internet censorship policies have mainly hurt foreign companies. Google has to move its main land web search services from Beijing to Hong Kong so that It no longer censors its search results according to China state’s behest. But its share of the Chinese online search market has dropped to less than 20 percent.

 

Yet today, the result of the Google search engine is also controlled by China state’s GFW. If the keywords which you’re using to search on the Google is one of China state’s sensitive words, you probably will not get the result. Because you connection to the Google search engine will be cut off by GFW.

 

Now, China state’s internet censorship is becoming severer and severer.   But our Chinese netizen will not stop to fight for the internet freedom.

I believe, one day Chinese citizen not only can break the GFW, freely access youtube, twitter, and facebook, but also gain the real human rights as many many western people do.