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Bloggers Test New MS China Filter
earthbound kid writes "Rebecca MacKinnon at Global Voices Online has set up a test of Microsoft's censored blogs on MSN China (see previous Slashdot story) with screenshots. It seems that MSN rejected titling a new blog 'I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy' (in Chinese) because 'The title must not contain prohibited language, such as profanity.' MacKinnon managed to use a workaround and got a pro-freedom blog up, for the moment."
The United States censors more than China does, actually, so I don't know why it's not being reported as much when it happens in this country. Obviously, communist countries are going to censor your stuff. But when "democratic" countries do it, now that's the news that should be reported. What about those kids who got in trouble with the SS (secret service) when the sang a parody of a song, containing words "kill" and "clinton", etc? Bah.
You are sorely, sorely, stupid. Have you missed the entire past 250 years of history?
"We hold these truths to be SELF EVIDENT..." You should complete the rest. If you haven't memorized it already, go search for "Declaration of Independence" on Google.
Man is sovereign. God gave man their rights. Man gives some of their power to form a government. Their rights do not come from the government, and the created beast called government has no rights to turn on their master. Instead, it is the government who may have their powers revoked at any time by a displeased population.
Governments are instituted by men for one purpose - to PROTECT (not intrude) on the rights of men. When governments go beyond this and begin intruding on their rights, man has a right and a duty to overthrow the government.
In the US, we have a system of constant revolution. Every 4 years we choose a new "king "and every 2 and 6 years we have a brand new "parliament". Should the majority of the people become dissatisfied with their government, they rise up and rebel at the ballot box, and a completely new government is formed with completely new people and possibly new rules. Our bloodless revolutions have been occuring for quite some time now (with only minor hiccups that were quickly resolved), and is the model for the rest of the world.
The Taliban was a tyrannical regime. Thank God every day that they are fallen and scattered and busy trying to find a new place to sleep each night rather than a someone new to persecute and torture. The USSR was a tyrannical regime. Thank God that they are gone as well. China, North Korea, and every member of the "Axis of Evil" has their days numbered. One day, their people will rise up (perhaps with some assistance) and overthrow their governments and remake it in their own image.
You represent an ancient artifact of outmoded thinking. Your kind and your beliefs are so outmoded and so useless that we forget that there are people who still think like you. What do you think has happened to the world for the past 250 years? Why do you think there isn't a nation in Europe run by a dictator or king anymore? Why have the great dynasties of Asia fallen into a distant memory? Where are the conquerors and emperors and dictators of yester-year? Where is their glory and their armies and navies and power? They are in the trash-bin of history, along with the backward notion that they somehow have a divine right to oppress people. One by one, tyrannical regimes are replaced with peaceful democracies. The march has been constant since 1776, and it won't stop until every nation is free. It won't even stop then, as each nation has periodic peaceful revolutions to remind their governments that the people are not slaves but masters.
This revolution of the world hasn't been stopped or slowed at any time in its histories. Great Brittain, the super-power, couldn't stop it when it was contained by 13 small colonies, barely able to raise a navy. Hitler, in control of over half of Europe, couldn't stop it when it was in the hands of a small island-nation and an agricultural nationa in economical ruin and for all purposes disarmed. Imperial death troops from Japan couldn't stop it despite the fact that the nation guarding it was busy in two wars spread across the world. The great USSR couldn't even slow it down when it claimed minor victories in pockets of the world. Do you think it will be any different in China or Iraq or Syria or Iran or North Korea?
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.