Assignment:
The essay topic will be on Chinese Censorship (particularly the business perspectives towards censorship)
Structure:
Section 1: Introduction
the essay will argue about how companies should respect the tradition of censorship in China and comply to the censorship in China. Corporations should not widely spread the censored news as it brings instability to the country (e.g. Hong Kong protest)... Corporations are gaining profit by entering Chinese market and obeying the rules.... Though reporting censored material boosts reads, corporations are pushing the limits to spread censored news as they are violating the Chinese law...
Section 2: Background and historical knowledge on Chinese censorship
-brief on Tiananmen event, how political stability is required for fast development in China, and partly achieved through censorship.
-maybe include how chinese culture is influenced by Confucianism...
Section 3: Corporations
a) Weibo
Kinda of like fb, spreads news very fast, partly censored but news are spread fast
b) WeChat
Similar to weibo, but news go really quicky
Example of typing in key words will get alert, government requirement for censorship. Corporations should comply to censorship. Use HK protest example
Section 4: Evaluation on Corporations should also comply to Chinese censorship since Chinese is a huge market, e.g. Baidu, youku censorship
Section 5: Counter arguments for companies who didn't comply and why its bad
a) Google
Refuses to comply and got kicked out of China, then complied and comes back to the market