China Blogs Nearly 35 Million and Growing

By Lance Winslow

It appears China’s economy is not the only thing growing, now China is seeing explosive growth on its Blogs and the growth as per MIT Technology Review is now 30 times more than it was 4 years the prior. What is fueling this growth even considering the Chinese Government’s crack down on certain material and website censorship campaigns? Well it appears that many younger folks are watching a steady increase in standard of living and are finding the Internet a nice place to introduce themselves you see?

If 35 million people have web Blogs then can you even imagine how many people are reading them? Of course some of these web Bloggers have paid a pretty high price for their writings and have been; Detained as the Chinese Authorities have stated?

Detained? As in detainees? As in Gitmo type detaining? No one knows and no one is saying, but this does pose a civil rights issue, which will have to be addressed at some point. China in case you did not know has over 100 million internet users and that number will only grow and some day it will surpass the United States. Perhaps at the current rate in a couple of years in fact. No one knows how many Bloggers and how many citizens of China will be detained at that point? Consider this in 2006.

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