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As we all know, China has a strict Internet censorship system, the Great Firewall is a system that China use to review the Internet , China is also one of the few countries with a firewall, which is the opposite of many European and American countries. Many people complain this system, they think they are not free, but others support it, so today our topic is"should the state has the power to censor the website in the interest of the public good?" Now let's begin to discuss!  First of all, I take all your points, because national security is definitely important, but is it really necessary to sacrifice our freedom? I don’t think so. The state is far too controlling of the internet can lead to a problem, that is, no freedom of speech. China has been in the bottom for many years from the rank of freedom in the world. Everyone has an equal voice, freedom of speech is higher than right and wrong because everyone has their own judgment, today I said I am right you are wrong, that is from my point of way, perhaps on your part, you are right I am wrong. If I believe I am right and I just forbid others to say different words, do not allow others to speak, that is to control other people's thoughts at the same time are confinement of my thoughts. No one can make progress without questioning, and in the same way, a society does not permit others to challenge, compete, or question, that society cannot develop and progress.  Nowadays, with the rapid development of new technology, applications like Weibo, twitter, instagram and others, they spread news convenient and fast, have a large degree of openness, and high timeliness. On these platforms, people can make a real voice, express their views and opinions on social events. But the deletion and blocking of posts have become the norm. People can’t participate in social events discussions, cannot share and comment, because once they write something that is not allowed, their social network accounts will be blocked. More seriously, maybe in a few days, you cannot search for these sensitive topics of events online, young people's sense of social participation will be reduced, instead of spending more time into entertainment. Pornography and entertainment will become the mainstream of online topics, in the end, we choose to take the initiative to close, the indifference of the public events, more people will become a cynicism.  And not only social events, but also historical events will be "frozen", such as some mistakes which made by the Government and you can find nothing on the Internet, many countries have hidden their dark history, maybe because they fear that their citizen does not trust the government, but if you do not face the mistakes, how can we be progress, the philosopher George Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." If there is no history, where culture comes from, in Chinese history, the burn of books and burying of Confucian scholars in Qin Dynasty, the literary inhibition in Qing Dynasty, look around the world, in 1920 the Soviet Union began cultural censorship, they draw the list of banned books and the burning books of Berlin, Germany, in 1933, these are the state have enforced policies in order to control people’ thought, which is at the cost of the society retrogression and the devastating losses of culture.  I think with the development of education and the increase of people's educational degree, the government should believe that people have the ability to correct judgment. In China, there is an old saying that the general meaning is the harm of stopping people from criticizing is more serious than the flood which caused by block all the river, the strictly prohibit online speech, to suppress the will of

the people. These policies will only push the social contradictions to the peak and speed up an outbreak of mass riots.  Today we discussed the topic of "should the state has the power to censor the website in the interest of the public good?" First, we looked at the issue of freedom, The state is far too controlling of the internet can lead to human rights and speech is not free, and we saw that for the sake of national security and the harmonious development of society can not achieve full of freedom. Then we considered the problem of the internet economy, although it will hinder the development of some enterprises ' economy, but at the same time, it also prevents the drawbacks of the development of the network economy. In short, China is a socialist country, socialist countries can not be the same regulation with capitalist countries, China's policy is based on its own national conditions, but the censorship can not be too strict, to protect the people's most basic interests meanwhile to safe guard national security is the best. ...