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Adopt a [Chinese] Blog
malorkus writes "Here's a great way for bloggers and others with decent web hosting to help fight internet censorship in China and other restrictive countries. Adopt a Chinese Blog aims to match up censored bloggers with volunteer hosts."
Wouldn't their government then just block access to certain servers / sites / blogs?
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
What's to stop the government from arresting people who are trying to get around their censorship?
"Leave China alone for Christ's sake. You're not going to change things, especially if you are NOT IN CHINA!"
No way. This has gone way too far.
If there is truth to these accusations that the Chinese government is intimidating citizens of my country in any way for something such as practicing Falun Gong, then we have a serious problem that need s addressing.
I'm in no way in favour of military action, but this is clearly and act of war on their part if it is true.
Is there some law in China against circumventing the censorship laws? Like.... What is the potential punishment that you are probably incurring upon whatever China-person you "help out"?
I'd be scared shitless to visit China if I let some dissident bloggers use some of my hosting space. The Chinese govt. is probably paranoid enough to start putting together a list of individuals who have helped these "dangerous" individuals.
Another concern I'd have is that a blogger might have lots of harsh words about some local official, but how do I know it isn't simply slander? And what would my liabilities be in such a case?
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
China is a safe haven for all sorts of internet activity which is illegal and reprehensible here, I guess it's only fair that we return the favor.
I've read hundreds of posts on slashdot that were wrongly modded down (censored) as trolls because people didn't like what they had to say, and others modded up as 'insightful' with content like 'MS SUCKS' and nothing else to say. Now this community is bitching about China?!! The looking glass is a mirror.
BTW, -1 as a troll. To hell with my karma.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll wipe out the species.
The democratic or republican forms of government are not designed to be the best form of government: a benevolent, wise, dictator/king is a far better system. What they are designed for is to limit the downside. While a good dictator/king is the probably the best form of government, a bad dictator/king is probably the worst.
The point of a democratic or representative system is that the worst case is limited, because no one person has the power to totally screw everything up. Presumably, therefore, at least some people will be decent, keeping the system from total failure.
So, yes, a planned economy can outperform a non planned one, if the planners are very good. A controlled political system can out perform a non planned one, if the planners are good.
But you have to have good planners. And they have to stay good, and operate in the interest of the system, not themselves.
An uplanned system, where everyone operates in their own best intrest, works fairly well, and does not depend on finding exeptional people to run it.
(My personal feeling, by the way, is that their economic growth has been more the result of technology upgrades than anything else. The US/Europe leads the world in productivity-enhancing tech, and a country that can jump a few grades closer to us will grow a lot faster than we will because we have to develop the next steps.)
'Sensible' is a curse word.