A Chinese Netizen's open letter to Hillary Clinton

A Chinese Netizen's open letter to Hillary Clinton

U.S. Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary Clinton:

Hello! I am a Chinese netizens, when I saw you criticizing the Chinese government constructing and managing the internet, falsely accusing the Chinese government restricting the Internet’s “free flow of information”, so called “open and free network”, “do not restrict the use and access of the internet”, I felt baffled.

First of all, Chinese government does not restrict internet users to use and access the Internet. I am a commentary writer; I spend most of my free time on the internet, looking for news, looking for different angles, writing reviews, expressing my views and opinions, and sometimes giving my personal comments and suggestions to the Government. So far, I have published thousands of articles, millions of words on uncountable websites like People’s daily, Xinhua and China Net etc. The government never give me any warnings and notices to tell me not go get on the internet or not to express my personal views.

Secondly, I do not find information on the network unable to flow freely. 9 Am this morning, I turned on my computer, and went on People’s Daily, Xinhua, China News, Sina, Sohu, Netease, IFeng and other major websites. I can open and view information about politics, economic, military, sports, entertainment and current affairs. I sent an email to my friend “Yixiao”and Netizen “Yixiao” got my email quickly. I also chat with my friends on QQ group and never was affected by anything or noticed any information not able to flow.

Again, I hope the government strengthens the security management of the Internet. Although the Internet is a free world, it is like the real world, is not going to work without rules and regulations, absolute freedom is ultimately lack of freedom, even makes people scared and afraid. The network without laws and regulations we all do not dare to go on, afraid of personal information being leaked out, even being sold. To me, what gives me the most headache is my commentary articles often being reposted, and I am not being paid for repost fees, I felt that my copyrights had been violated, but I was helpless. Therefore, I hope the Government can strengthen the network management, improve network security, to protect internet users’ personal information and privacy, to protect my copyright and other legal rights.

Finally, Ms. Clinton, I believe that you do not wish your personal information to be sold online; do not wish personal information being spied on and leaked out, do not wish U. S. companies to trade secrets being stolen, even more so do not wish the U. S. government leak out confidential information. I believe the United State is also strengthening the supervision and management of these areas.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire; do not unto others as you would not have them do unto you. Why do you accuse the Chinese government managing China’s Internet according to the law? Have you ever considered The Chinese internet users hope the Chinese government can provide a more secure and reliable network? You, the police of Pacific, aren’t you trying to interfere too much? Please put away your stuff, Ms. Hillary Clinton.

- A Chinese netizens: Wang Jie (王捷)
January 23, 2010 AM