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China - We Don't Censor the Internet
kaufmanmoore writes "A Chinese government official at a United Nations summit in Athens on internet governance has claimed that no Net censorship exists at all in China. The article includes an exchange by a Chinese government official and a BBC reporter over the blocking of the BBC in China." From the article: "I don't think we should be using different standards to judge China. In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem. I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. And I've heard people say that the BBC is not available in China or that it's blocked. I'm sure I don't know why people say this kind of thing. We do not have restrictions at all."
Well, if his high-ranking government official collegues are able to get an uncensored Internet feed, that must mean they don't have any censorship, right?
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Technically... in Chinese legalspeek(tm) he's probably right.
It's not "censorship" it's "protection of the people from incorrect thoughts".
I think I've found Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's new job.
Spin for one government is the same as a spin for another government, right?
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Well it's obvious that Google.cn just hasn't had the opportunity to index the entire internet. You know that the internet is a pretty big place and Google.cn is still fairly new. Give it 10-15 years and check again.
no i'm saying china has a SIMILAR situation. which country is it which has lots of its infra structure run by immigrants some of them illeagal yet refuses to give them citizenship? no on no account am i sayin the u.s. implements the single child policy and i totally agree with your views on tibet and i just go mad when i here about these dogs but is the US MUCH better? while the us is one of the most politically free countrys, that doesnt mean that the elections are nesscessarily fair OR free with a 2 party democracy things can get pretty confused - it being an either or question instead of "who" now i know this system has some benefits, i dont deny that, but it does create politics which is very mainstream, with nobody daring big changes in policy. oh back to a few other of your points... censorship of the press? which country has big investigations and scandals about various newspapers reporting intelligence programs which it is not allowed to and getting into shit with the government oh and support for mass murderers? well there are several blood-thirsty dictators which the US, sorry bush, "supports"(look in asia and africa) but i'd prefere not to go into case studies. the us has the one of the largest prison populations in the world additionnaly, like china, it is one of the only developed countries in the world in which execution is leagal. personnaly I like the US(they are keeping taiwan safe), I just wish it would keep the moral high ground it has traditionally held at the moment they are being hipocritic going after afganistan - yep, fine, good iraq? hmmm compare iraq to north korea compare iraq to iran compare iraq to china - the only reason the US doesn't bomb them tomorrow is because of lucrative trade deals. I agree the U.S isn't Nazi germany. I never said it was. but i do think it is moving closer towards WWII italy. I just wish, since after the UN, it is the only one who feasably can. It would stick it's butt out , doing something good, and go tell china to go f**k itself (metaphorically) persaonnaly i wish it put itself more into NATO and the UN
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