To censor or not to censor...

I've found an interesting blog titled "Somebody think of the children" which is distributed by Michael Meloni. It contains all kinds of latest news relating to censorship within Australia and around the world.
A post on it listing 20 worst cases of censorship interests me, the list includes media texts being censored due to child abusing, pornography and other moral panics.
This makes me think about the topic of censorship: should controversial media texts being censored? I've mentioned in my first post "my understanding of citizen journalism" that some restrictions might be necessary for preventing the blogosphere. But now, I am thinking that to do so may cause the consequence that mistakes will occur and it is also hard to define the limitation of censorship.
One case that has been mentioned in Meloni's blog is that a 61 year-old Queensland resident being arrested by the police because of uploading a video that is believed containing child-abuse images. When I saw this case, I thought if I were the police, I would consider this as serious offending video that should be censored. However, it turned out that this video was actually about a Russian circus family training their kids, and the Australian Classification Board later classified this video as M 15+. This case was listed on top of the worst censorship cases provided by Meloni, which really surprised me because I then put my self into the position as a ridiculous person who is anti the freedom of speech.
Indeed, some cultural and individual activities can cause other people's discomposure and the feeling of antipathy. But when standing on a more tolerant point of view, to allow these things exist is to prevent the diversity of our global culture as well as the web culture, to censor thing is equal to limiting people's choices.
I think that to define the limit of censorship is a though task, on the way approaching it, mistakes are unavoidable. But to remain critical and active is important for all the citizens.

Here is the link of the mentioned blog: http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/australia-worst-censorship-2009/

Today is the seventh of July

Today is the seventh of July.73 years before,the Japanese Invaders started the aggression at Lugou bridge, Beijing.From this date till 1945, nearly 18-20 million Chinese people were killed during the war.
I saw an article of Long Yingtai in renren.com(龍應台：一個中國人死了，一個美國人死了，一個猶太人死了。),which is about the fact that nobody in China(Taiwan) even mention the incident,the war and the victims of world war two.
To prove Long Yingtai's statement,I went to some of the largest Chinese web sites such as sina,163,cctv and Nanfang Daily etc. It is true:NONE OF THESE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SITES REPORT ABOUT THE VICTIMS AND THE WAR CRIME.Only the cctv site mentions the "7th of July" incident, but it seems that the editor prefers to talk about Japanese army's secret instead of Chinese victims' death.
I then went to the popular social networking sites and forums such as renren,mop and tianya etc. Only tianya got this something about the history on its home site linking to a memorial post.
I also googled the key word "7th of July".Ironically,on a site called"today in the history", there's nothing about what was happening in China.There is a list of death, no Chinese name was there.
I feel upset, it is true what Long Yingtai said:"只是從來不見，在七七那樣的日子，中國人用一天的時間肅靜下來，哀矜過去、審視未來，深沉地面對一下民族的靈魂，從來不見。" (Chinese people never spend a day to memoerate the past,the nation's history seriously,never.)
I recognise that we olny get notifications from media about happy dates to celebrate. Memorial dates in the history are less and less to be mentioned.If Chinese our selves do not pay attention to our humiliating and miserable past, who else will remember it?
So I write down all these,as my own mourning.

My understanding of citizen journalism

So let me begin my blog with a summary of my personal understanding of citizen journalism.
I can't remember when, but since a remarkable period of time I haven't followed the mainstream media to get up to date with all the current affairs. Instead of watching TV or reading newspapers, I read stuff from social networking sites where people update the newest stories by posting texts(could be articles, video-clips or whatever) of their own. If I got interested in something and would like to tell other friends about it, I could simply link the text so that I got it shown on my personal site as well.
Here is my rough understanding of citizen journalism:normal people become free to create media texts(mainly news) and publish them, at the same time any comments to these media resources are welcome. Gradually, the traditional media reporting is challenged by citizen journalism since the mainstream media is mostly lack of participation and somehow censored. In fact, in countries such as China where mainstream media are mostly controlled by the government, citizen journalism is playing a more and more significant role in terms of deliver information.
But regarding ethics and other media reporting principles such as privacy and copyright, those who haven't got professional training of journalism tend to break the rules without consciousness. In this term, more efforts need to be made in order to guide people reporting online and some restrictions are probably necessary to prevent the blogosphere.