Zi Teng---strive for the human right of the commerical sex workers (HK)

Zi Teng


The Internet (or cyberspace) is more democratic, in the sense that even Commercial Sex Work (I will not prefer to use the word prostitution, since the word itself bear certain degree of bias and discrimination against sex workers) is illegal in Hong Kong, the government still not have power to interfere or then delete the website of Zi Teng. Apart from the grandnarrative of "morality" (if possible, I may have some discussion of it on my research paper, and reminded that some scholars like Michel Foucault will suggest that the conception of morality is highly related to the formation of knowledge and power), even the marginalised social group, say here the sex workers' organisation, have the power and automony to strive for their social need and human right, articulating and cirulating via the Internet. In other words, the freedom of speech is more possible to be expressed on the Internet, than any other media such as Television, Radio, newspaper, and etc. As Charles Cheung has put it in his article called web life, arts and culture, the commmerical pressure may affect the selection of the mass media (e.g. TV and radio), and thus they never allow people the degree of creative freedom offerred by the personal homepage.