Censorship

I have been keeping a mirror version of this blog on a Chinese-language site in fear of losing access to blogger.com when I head back.

Today, I found two of my blogs at that site were deleted and I got the real sense of the power of censorship by the government and its agencies.

The two blogs were just citings from public sources on the Internet. And I stood neutral on the views by merely "copy and paste".

Now, I know I have to be extremely careful about what to publish and what to keep as private. After all, I have no interest in politics and I want to live a peaceful life whatsoever. That's right, I am a coward from a political perspective.

I now save the two blogs under the "private" category on that site. The thing is: do we really have privacies? Who can guarantee that our private blogs are not censored on a regular basis.

Another realization that I just came to was the anomalies in the page view statistics. The two ultra-high hits (one in early April, the other in May 7) must be the consequences of regular or ad hoc censorship the site is conducting.

It chilled me to the bone.