As society develops, the application of social media is more and more important.
Nowadays, social media is used widely and also has rapid development. However, in
different country, the degree of development of social media is different. Sometimes due to
the different national conditions, the freedom of social media is always different.
According to the different regimes, the attitudes which treat to social media are also
different. Among these different types of government, there is a type of government named
authoritarian government, which is an uncompromising type of government has a distinct
relationship with social media. It’s necessary to realize the link between authoritarian
government and social media. Because the relationship between authoritarian government
and social media is similar to the relationship between the government and society. It could
obvious realize about the national conditions from the status of social media and the
control degree from the government. Therefore it is important to grasp the link between the
authoritarian government and social media. There are some following points which can
help to strengthen the understanding of the relationship of authoritarian government and
social media; first of all, one of the regimes of authoritarian government is that the
government has the power to guide the public opinions. Then social media could be
libertarian or not by the influence of authoritarian government. And the most important
points are authoritarian government could force social media to consolidate their power, in
the contrary, social media could also lead a revolution to against to authoritarian
government.
One of the regimes of authoritarian government is that the government has the power to
