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Outrunning China's Web Cops
conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting story on an outfit, DIT, that provides people in China access to censored sites. To do this, 'the company distributes software, called FreeGate, which disguises the sites a person visits. In addition, DIT sends out mass e-mails to Chinese Web surfers for clients such as VOA, which is banned in China. The e-mails include a handful of temporary Web addresses that host off-limits content and springboards to other forbidden sites.'"
Still, the GP has a valid point. There is no inherent tyranny or oppression in the definition of communism. It was the implementations that sucked - sometimes more, sometimes less. The former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (between 1945 and 1990) was not in the least like the countries you cited above. It still sucked, of course, but not much worse than the US in some parts of its' history. Only differently.
Ah, i see: in Communism as it is attempted, you make your own country hell on earth. In Capitalism as it is attempted, the hell is exported to everyone else's. (Not to mention the manufacturing base). Thanks for the clarification! The logically flawed namecalling at the end always *really* seals the deal in proving one's moral and intellectual superiority, too.
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