HW#11 "making global voices heard."

After reading "Making Global Voices Heard: An Interview with Rebecca MacKinnon," (Kline and Burstein) I chose to talk about the blog by Isaac Mao (isaacmao.com/meta). When you first come to the blog you see that it is very plain, nothing to fancy, it’s just getting the blogs out there for you to read. It has a white background with the normal black text. As MacKinnon stated, he is a well known blogger be cause he is the only blogger who blogs in both English and Chinese. On his site you can see that Mao mostly talks about the issues that are going on in China. His last post was on September 9, 2007. This blog talked about the World Economy Forum. And also internet censorship, and how it is becoming more serious in China. In MacKinnon’s reading she mentioned how Chinese blogs are very strict, and that if you wish to post something you have to set up an account on Mao's blog and then use keywords to see what you can then post. And sometimes their are cases where the blog may not even be posted because their was something in it that they didn't like. She also stated that many people have actually gone to jail because they posted something that was wrong for their blogs. MacKinnon stated that one of Mao's blog (The Great Firewall) had recently been shut down for revealing too much information. I agree with this because you really need to be careful about what you post on your blogs. Yet some people may challenge my views about what you post on your own blog because you do have the freedom of speech, but in China you must be careful. Before I read the blog my expectations were correct. It was about events going on in China.