Will social media inside China help drive Chinese liberalization?

[Bubby]

Social media in China will not help drive Chinese liberalization. The Chinese government will not accept change or give up control of its people. You may get a few educated Chinese to go along with it but the majority of the population are poor and uneducated farmers who can care less about liberalization - they want very little in life and don't want to challenge their government. This is a government of dictatorship on a grand scale. Have you forgotten what happened in Tiananmen Square in '89. The government retaliated with brute force even after the protest and they will again use violence. How can a few educated people stand a chance against a government that controls everything. It would be a disaster. The government knows that if anything change it will snowball into democracy.