Limited Access to the Information?

What kind of information should be accessed by the public and what is not? I believe that it should depend on the countries. Different countries have various beliefs for this problem, also have different mechanisms to control the access right. Every country has her own privacy. That means some information must be protected by the government, not be accessed by the public.

This news reported that China still retains a tight control on the public access to some sensitive information sources, such as some information describing Tiananmen Square in 1989, Dalai Lama, and even Falun Gong, as well as some world famous media, for example, BBC.

In addition, the news said the filtering technologies in China is pervasive, sophisticated, effective, and dynamic in nature, changing along a variety of axes over time.

As a child when in China, it was true that I was always eager to listen to BBC radio about the world news and keen to find out the true side of the news. I still remembered during those years I did not know whether the news from BBC is subjective or objective though I know the principles of the news reporting is truth comes first always because I occasionally found out that some news from BBC radio was different from what I heard in our radio. I felt very strange about that because I did not know which source I should trust. That attracted me to listen to BBC more. What's more, it is not very easily to receive the signals of BBC, which covered a secret mask on BBC radio for me. Later, with the involvement of Internet in the exchange and communication of information, I could easily find the answers on the WWW. With the time being, everything seemed normal to me.

From the view of the technologies, information should be independent of any media and should be available to collect and process at any time. In my point of view, what we should do is to make sure the information sources themselve right. As for how to control them, it is an artificial and external factor. In the individual view, It is not appropriate to decide whether it is right to open the access to all the information to the public. Seriously governments should have their respective rights to cover a limited amount of information related to the security, which was decided by the country's constitution. We could not measure this issue with a standard accepted by most of the countries in the world.