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Google Disappears In China
An anonymous reader submits: "The censorship in China was finally getting better since people were 'allowed' to read the CNN news now (except for certain articles). But since this weekend it seems that a new web page has been censored in China. Since this weekend it looks like everyone in China is not 'allowed' to use google.com anymore. google.com was also gaining populairity in China as the better search engine (which also works fine in Chinese). But now I guess it got too popular and thus not allowed. Or does it have anything to do with Yahoo signing the agreement to censor?" Comments to yesterday's post "Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters" also noted that Google has gone missing within China.
Is it possible that google's cache allows the Chinese to view 'forbidden' websites?
China has a problem with political speech, free flow of ideas, dissent and the like. I doubt the inside of a man's rectum rates as highly on their scale of things that should be oppressed.
Webster's defines propoganda as: "Any widespread promotion of particular ideas" -
I'd say since a ranking on google can be bought for a fee, it's as much propoganda as any other source from any other country. Why should China buy into yet another western myth? MS splashscreens the hell out of their OS, and no one complains about that version of mind control. Western TV floods the airwaves with photos of paper-thin models, denouncing fat as the enemy. Why should a country that decides to curtail such hype be chastised? China will get along just fine by their own motives and choices. Any westerner that thinks they live a better life in terms of freedom of thought should look closer at the layout of their favorite daily newspaper.
Don't try to express your views or humor here, are you nuts?
This is another example of spineless cunt moderation here on Slashcrap.
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe Moderators
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit moderator!
Try to suck less, please
The Humorless Moderator
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless moderator!
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
Slashdotting Commie
Moderator fears new idea!
Censor him quickly
Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do!
Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of
I have a Gun and the Constitution [Not the urinated-on pissed-on hacked fucked up one WashingTOON thinks exists, I mean the real one, with Jefferson and Madison at my side], please, give me an excuse to use them both.
(*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.
SAYINGS, quips et al:
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit cencorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water. - Fisher Ames
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H. L. Mencken.
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw.
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. - Jay Leno.
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of governement. (Death to those who defile the root documents of a free nation to make economic freedom SUPERCEDE FREEDOM! Freedom FISRT, Free market Second!)
Occam's Razor "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" Translation: " "Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones" Modern fucking translation "JUST DO IT."
Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state!