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Yahoo Agrees to Censor Chinese Portal
Bonker writes: "This article at Salon indicates that Yahoo, as part of a larger pledge to 'purge the Web of content that China's communist government deems subversive', has agreed to censor 'pernicious information that may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability' from its Chinese portal. Yahoo is one of about 300 other ISPs and websites who have signed the 'Public Pledge on Self-discipline for China Internet Industry'."
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And somewhere all your liberal Democrat friends are wondering how we can censor more of the content available to the entire world to make it more politically correct.
[FromTheMorning]
You seem to want to turn this into a case of Americans wishing to impose our ideals on others. While I'd love to have a long thread someday on why it would be better for the Chinese if they did adopt our ideals of liberty and democracy, that's not the issue here. The issue is whether American companies should be helping them enforce their ideals of oppression and totalitarianism.
And if freedom and democracy are not `the only way a country can be run effectively', then what? Is our goal to run countries `effectively', or to run them in a manner which provides liberty and democracy to their citizens?
I'm very, very disappointed at Yahoo for selling out to a despotic government, to say the least. Anyhow, I'm not surprised that the Chinese would do this -- I'm an American businessman in the import- export business, so as you might guess, my frequent travels take me to many places around the world, on every continent.
I wanted to share my experience in the "great" country of China.
So, I was in Shenzhen China last December for about a week on business. A bit of background: Shenzhen, like Hong Kong and a few other places, is a "Special Economic Zone" that the Chinese government set up to try and give foreigners the illusion that China really ISN'T a drab, decaying fascist state that's economically languishing behind the rest of the world. Here, rules are relaxed and capitalism is encouraged, not surppressed. Well, let me tell you this, if this is China's best, then I'd hate to see the worst.
Anyways, when I stepped off the train from Hong Kong (which was no paradise itself, as that place has gone down the shitter since the Brits left) I was shocked. The whole place smelled like a combination of vomit and dog shit that had been left out in the sun for a day or so. And it was probably BECAUSE there was vomit and dog shit all over. I almost retched, and I've certainly been in some sketchy places in my travels but NOTHING like this.
People spit everywhere. Trash litters the streets. I found myself looking DOWNWARD much more than looking FORWARD when I walked.
Noise pollution is endemic. It doesn't help that their infernal language consists of abrupt rapid fire tones that is a cacophony for any human ear to bear. How do they speak and listen to that shit without going crazy all day long is beyond me.
Anyways, Chinamen stink -- literally. There is no concept of personal hygiene whatsoever. Meetings with even top officials were hourlong sessions of having to endure hot sweaty bodies and rancid breath eminating from mouths missing a few teeth. Geez, at least use deodorant for crying out loud.
The hypocrisy, corruption, and double-standards from the highest levels of government on over are the norm at the same time China opens up to the world. Foreigners get charged as much as five times for transportation, lodging, food, and everything else.
Traffic is horrible. Rules are non-existent except for at traffic lights: red means to go fast, green means to go REALLY REALLY fast.
The Chinese people themselve are pretty apathetic and everyone just wants to get out of that hell hole, so you see smuggling rings shipping people out hidden in truck beds and ships, all too often with tragic results.
The whole country, in my assessment is a lost case. Even the cheap labor can be found in Southeast Asia or Mexico. Same goes for pirated stuff -- SE Asia and Eastern Europe will keep on churning them out.
Anyways, the one redeeming quality were the girls. I paid 100 yuan (about $12 US) for a great fuck, with a 16 year old who seemed quite new and "unblemished" if you get my drift. Boy, was she tight, made all the right noises, sucked and fucked all night long and let me cum all over her. Much better than even the vaunted Thai whores, and worlds apart from anything in Las Vegas or in Europe. Best bargain I have EVER found in my life!
So yeah, screw the hell hole that's China. It's a lost cause of a country suspsended by a hollow facade of so-called new capitalism that's just show more than anything.
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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This is precisely why you Americans are so hated. You think that because *you* have "Freedom of Speech" everybody else does as well. American laws exist within the bounds of America. America only! Understand?
Why would you assume, that some constitutional "right" that exists in *your* country would exist in anybody elses country....let alone a communist one.
You are a retard...but I expect no less from an American.
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
The same goes for `domineering' -- posting a hysterical Boston Globe article which doesn't actually find anything particularly objectionable to point at does not make for a very convincing argument.
So, to bring this back on topic, if you can look at a nation like China, which locks tens of thousands of its citizens in forced-labor camps for wanting to vote or wanting to practice a non state-approved religion, which uses forcible sterilization and mandatory abortions in the name of `public health', and which has expansionist designs on almost all of its neighbors, and see the US as the `totalitarian' and `domineering' party in this picture, you're certainly not playing with a full deck...