News Report #5

“China Internet Use Exceeds Global Average”
K.C. Jones, Information Week
January 15, 2009
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212900560&subSection=Browsers

The People’s Republic now has over 300 million internet users. China’s population growth of 42% in 2008 is another factor that led to its internet domination. The number of people using the internet in China has more than doubled since 2006. It is also found that ninety percent of internet users in China use broadband service according to the Internet Network Information Service.

We are living in a technological age. We live in a world where a household of four can have six computers all with internet access and their own wireless internet routing system. Did I mention the four televisions also in the home. In 2008 China actually surpassed the United States in internet users, what a shocking concept. We use the internet to connect with our friends, do our homework for school, check e-mails for work, read the latest news and check the weather. It doesn’t surprise me that China has finally surpassed the United States I do wish that the Chinese government will eventually allow their citizens to use the internet and not be censored. The Chinese government has imprisoned people for posting certain things in web blogs and for searching particular things on the internet. I hope that eventually this age of internet freedom and free speech will eventually be fully extended in the country that actually harbors the most internet users in the world. At least we can be thankful that the censorship factor has not affected the number of people who use the internet in China.