Three Examples of How the Internet Is A Powerful Agent of Social Change
And therefore, how the Chinese government is rightly fearful of the medium as a threat to their control of the country. From juvenile and sophomoric pranks, to a salacious diary of sexual exploits, to a potential police cover-up to a teacher’s suicide, each of these events led to some kind of on-line gathering and outrage, followed by off-line action. In some cases, public apologies, in other words, the creation of a near lynch mob, and yet in the last case, a government scrubbing of all available details and proof. Fili has the details in a great summary complete with references, but one does wonder as more Chinese become net-literate how much further the net will transform the way Chinese become aware of — and eventually do something — about perceived inequities.