Apologies for the lack of posts the past week, but I am back.

As the 2500 word essay for my New Media, New Asia subject draws near, I thought I should write a final blog post on it just to get all my ideas and thoughts in-line. When I last wrote up a post about this, my idea was very broad: how the Chinese government tried to censor the Wenzhou train incident, but as the time went by, my mind narrowed down to something more specific; something more… interesting. I want to delve into the psychological side of this issue and focus less on China but on different governments around the world. I want to discuss how the government can so easily transform people’s mindsets (all these mind-games!!).

People in China have habitually started censoring themselves on topics that might get them into hot water, because they do not know when the government will be reading/watching what they post online. I will argue about the possibility in which the government knew this would happen when they brought up censorship in the first place. #conspiracy?

So for this essay, I will bring up:
– general examples arounds the world (one can be the Wenzhou train incident)
– self-censorship
– social media
– a type of political system (in any country)