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Chinese Bloggers Stage Hoax
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "It seemed like the latest instance of a recurring story: Two Chinese blogs had shut down, apparently the victim of government censorship. 'Within hours, English-language bloggers and Western news media spread the word that the Chinese government had closed the sites,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The BBC spread the word, and its report was picked up by the French free-press group Reporters Without Borders. 'But in this case, it appears the Chinese government wasn't involved, the WSJ reports. 'By Thursday, a day after the shut-downs, the blogs were back up and running. In an interview, Beijing-based journalist Wang Xiaofeng of Massage Milk says he shut his blog down to make a point about freedom of speech -- just one directed at the West instead of at Beijing. He calls the Western press "irresponsible" and says that the hoax was designed "to give foreign media a lesson that Chinese affairs are not always the way you think." ' The BBC later corrected its story."
"Make a special won ton soup for him."
(with apologies to Eddie Murphy)
Listen up, you hipocritic western slut: we do not give a fucking shit about your so-called "freedom" to molest children and beat women.
We take your money, "pirate" your dimwitted efforts at producing movies and sell you badly fabricated clothes. There is no more we want of you except your money.
And please re-think the value of your media; it's ridiculous if you should continue to think they are of any worth.
I'll probably get modded down because 99% of the Slashdotters are anti-communist, but someone has to say it.
I still think all the mud throwing at the North Korean government is rediculous. Everybody here's making it sound like North Korea is a hell in which you will be executed if you try to pronounce the 'd' of 'democracy'. North Korea is not China. While I think the North Korean government should be more open, they're not the Big Bad Stalinist Communist Overlords everybody claims they are.
But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
They used to, but now they're detainees... You see, in the US, if you speak out against China you're a patriot, but if you speak out against Bush or the rest of the US government you're a terrorist.
I'm still hoping for a reversal, but after the 2004 election where Bush was the 'war hero' and Kerry the 'coward flip-flopper', I'm not holding my breath.
And I thought Steve Jobs had a good RDF...
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"Me Chinese, me play joke!"
So several thousand people were not executed after the Tiananmen Square attempt at democracy? Really?
Please, at least leave the attempt at historical revisionism to the government shrills paid to do so. China has a nasty government clinging to power using any tool it can. They will kill if necessary - and they have done so. They have done nothing in the intervening years since then to change that assessment.
I'm super impressed by your skillz.
Thanks for the nothing.