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China orders all websites, blogs to register with government or face shutdown (pg. 2)
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| xxxtasy |
Economic prosperity comes ahead of social turmoil, aka free speech which can often be construed in times of record unemployment.
This type of political supression is necessary to keep a lid on unnecessary protests.
I am all for it.
Lets get over with the economic liberalisation first. :eyespop: |
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| articnorth |
eh, i guess china the giant is behind a mask.
can the united states disinvest from china, giving the american people their jobs back, oh pretty please.
china is a communism country, the idealogy remains the same with the thinking. |
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| zig |
| Nothing new here, the censoring of the internet has been going on for years in the middle east. |
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| metalgearsolid |
| so what that is the middle east they are living under tyrants and stuff and the only reason anyone cares about them is due to the oil |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
so what that is the middle east they are living under tyrants and stuff and the only reason anyone cares about them is due to the oil |
actually it has more do with the Cold War than anything else, including oil |
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| ProDiGaL |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
actually it has more do with the Cold War than anything else, including oil |
the cold war hey?
hmm lets see it only ended over 10 years ago. |
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| metalgearsolid |
| now microsoft is helping beijing...crap |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by metalgearsolid
now microsoft is helping beijing...crap |
I'm surprised that google is as well, isn't their company motto "do no evil" or something like that? |
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| metalgearsolid |
hey u MORON check out my link:rolleyes: |
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| TheNobleEu |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
Gotta love communism. |
China's a strange situation -- it's 'titularly Communist' in its political ideology (which is to say its interest is holding onto power), but it has already begun the transition to a free market. These Communists don't really believe in economic Communism anymore.
The current leaders of China are all Western-educated technocrats; they realize they must change with the times or face irrelevance (pay attention Vatican City).
China has been censoring the internet for ages (concern over Falun Gong, anti-government campaigning/protest organization over the internet -- part of the post-Tiananmen paranoia) and even put down Chinese civil demonstrations against Japan a short while ago (when the government is itself anti-Japan!)
In other words, business as usual. This doesn't have much to do with ideological Communism anymore, just bloc-totalitarianism. :)
Cheers,
-Noble. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by ProDiGaL
the cold war hey?
hmm lets see it only ended over 10 years ago. |
yes, and now the U.S. is cleaning out all the dictators it once supported that are no longer needed... Saddam, etc. |
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