(freedom to use net and sms) = (freedom of speech)

The above equation is from 3rd most powerful person in china. He thinks that by allowing 400m netizens from china to express their views is freedom of speech to the nation. Freedom of speech is not just the right to talk. Its the right which allows people to express their views, their grief, their ideologies which might inspire others, which is the first step to create a social change in a system.

Just right to speech is not sufficient to create a social change. To propagate the ideology, one might have to travel the nation (Right to freely move within the borders of the nation), might take the help of media when the ideologies are critical of govt policies ( Uncensored media and news papers ) and one might have to gather people to take up a task (Right to form associations). And first of all the person who wants to create change must live and the nation must have a mechanism where govt cant arrest him without any reason ( Right to live ). Even if the govt tried to curb the change , the nation must have an institution which can direct the govt to do a thing and which gives justice to people and that institution must be out of influence of govt ( Rule of law, independent judiciary ).

A nation have to have all these rights so that the govt cant suppress a movement which is against govt. And these are called fundamental rights. Without which the citizens of nation cant create a change.

The whole idea of fundamental rights is originated from the belief that people could be wrong. And govt is not a machine with nuts and bolts, its a bunch of people who has authority to run the country. What if those bunch of people go wrong? The citizens should have the opportunity to criticize the govt. Probably the govt understands the point of citizens and mend it ways. This might work on few policies.What if majority of govt policies are not liked by the people. Then we need to have a mechanism to change the govt. In the old days this is accomplished with a revolution or a coup which is bloodshed. The french revolution , the american revolution, our struggle for independence can be quoted as examples.

Here comes the the concept of democracy to save us. Dont chant the old text book definition of govt by the ppl, for the ppl ...etc etc . I see democracy as the political system which allows the citizens to change the govt when they are not satisfied with the performance of present govt. We are fed up congress govt so we choosed BJP, it didnt perform well so we went back to congress again, it performed well and indians thought nuclear bill is not a bad thing so we choose  congress again. And all these changes were made without spilling blood.

All these concepts which let the citizens to keep the govt on toes are not present in china. Of course i agree their growth rate is more than us. Men will be more productive when a hunter visits them on their back , that does not mean we should follow the political structure of china. After all we are humans with feelings, not just workers.