100 Million Online in China

Colin Smith writes "Rising levels of personal wealth in the nation of China means that the country now has over 100 million internet users, and the authorities are discovering just how difficult it is to place a dam against information in the digital age." From the article: "Only last week, the authorities threatened to shut down websites and blogs that failed to register with regulators in a new campaign to tighten controls on what the public can see online. The so-called Great Firewall of China is constantly being breached as citizens and the authorities play a cat and mouse game with the flow of information."

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And the US Gov Still Has DNS Root Servers

[Horrortaxi]

Someone in the US government is reading this and saying either "shit, cutting the American citizens' contact with the outside world is going to be harder than we thought" or "grreat, let's learn from China's mistakes."

Re:Fr**d*m *nd d*m*cr*cy?

[CaymanIslandCarpedie]

Ironic you bring that up because Iraq has been freed of one of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world

You always need to consider where you here this shit people! Its called propoganda! I'm not saying Iraq (pre-war) was a great shining example of what a country "should" be (relating to leadership of the country), but the average people were much better off before the was than they are now. What is this "oppresive dictatorship" you talk of? Its propoganda my friend.

You will talk about the previous Iraq governements supposed torture, gassing of the Kurds, etc, etc, etc. I can talk about the supposed torture by the US in Gitmo, abu-grade, slaughters at Ruby Ridge and Waco by the US governement.

Every government has good and bad. Its amazing how people still fall for this propoganda though. I know friends who've been to Iraq (pre-war) and they tell of a VERY happy beautiful country (of course not anymore). I've been to Cuba many times (another "oppressive dictatorship") and I can tell you the vast majority are VERY happy with Castro and the current system. Sure there are some things they would change, but no more so than the things many Americans would want to see changed in the states.

Grow up and use a little critical thinking!!!! Iraq used to be a great friend of the US when Saddam was in charge. A little time passed and the US decided the relationship wasn't working out so well anymore so they start shouting "oppresive dictatorship! oppresive dictatorship! oppresive dictatorship!" until enough idiots believe it so they can go have a little war.