HW 11: Blogging Around the World

I chose to view Isaac Mao’s blog for this assignment. It is a pretty bland blog website, just a lot of text and some advertising. I can tell that Mao wants to just get his opinions across through this blog he is not concerning himself with the appearance of the website. Most of the blogs are about this new technology that is coming out that will have a robot for each person which is actually pretty intriguing. The latest though is about the censorship the Chinese government is putting on the internet, this was mentioned in Rebecca MacKinnon’s interview. Rebecca gave an accurate description of this blog and it is a free-spoken person who wants change. He is critical of how the Chinese government is censoring the people of China and he is right in thinking so. Government officials in China, of course, may want to dispute my claim that Mao’s views are helpful to the Chinese people. They would protest that China does not need these negative comments and that Mao needs to be more supportive of China’s policies to help clean up the internet.