How could mashups serve international governance? Would mashups serve to make government more effective

According to Wikipedia, Mashup is a platform (web page or application) combines two or more sources to make a new program or function. In this case, people could integrate the existing functions or data to create the new one. Thus, people could have their own web program or software; it is a way that democratizes the internet users. In the level of state, based on the ideology of Mashup, government can gather the information from internet and monitor them. Therefore, the government can easily restrict the information which they do not want people to see. For example, from this week’s reading, the Chinese government set several rules and regulations to manage the information on-line. The regulations involve in many perspectives such as politics, social order, and criminal information. The authority even asked some foreign website to block the information according to the roles if they want to do business in China and usually resulted in some conflicts between government and the foreign website. For instance, Google announced to withdraw from China since they are not able to restrict the information which they are excepted to. There are some arguments based on these roles. Some believed that the regulations violate the freedom of public. Some argued that it is effective for government to manage the ill-natured information due to provide a better internet environment.

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