Based on the topic of Cyberspace and the Concept of Democracy (Wrote by Fred Evans), An considerable paragraph shows at below:

"Many commentators acknowledge that cyberspace and the internet have a "dark side" ...... the technocrat control, panoticism or pervasive surveillance by the government or by corporations and escapism"

The above statement obviously described the China's internet circumstance. The example is that most of famous online companies have banned in China, such as  Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Youtube. So people can not use these website in China, because of these websites includes some speeches or imformations which include positive influences to Chinese government. The government is the unique party in the China, so the party does not want to listen any bad words about it and the party chose escapism, which avioid to listen a positive information or new vioices make by people dont like them, but these people are still exist. In this year's July, the world's biggest research engine company Google, left the Chinese market, because Chinese government try to "technocrat control" in Google's company, so Google believe that they need to be democracy, because their service aim is to give people speech of freedom and voices and identity, as Fred Evans wrote in his topic "our voice is our identity", so Goole insisted to service "voices" to the Chinese people, finally, they have to leave the Chinese market by the government's power.

However, I believe that China's democracy of internet could be change in the future, because the country is still a developing country, the mainly things of the country is to increase the economic, maybe after few years, when China become to the developed country, the democracy of people and internet could be released naturally. 

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