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China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet
jp_papin writes "The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged. The Chinese government is requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to 'monitor and restrict information coming in and out of China,' Brownback said Thursday. 'This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affront to American businesses,' he said. 'I call on China to immediately rescind this demand.' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn't aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but Brownback said he got the information on Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but confidential sources.' The State Department is apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."
-undocumented workers
+illegal immigrants
There, fixed your doublespeak for you.
They do care. They have improved.
They've removed lot's of sites from the Great Firewall of China, for instance the English Wikipedia, after western politicians said that a change like that would reflect well upon China. They've let western journalists go to many places they can't normally go to. Today, many European countries (including mine, Sweden) have governmentally blessed internet blocklists that are far longer than the Chinese one.
But after the western media told the world that the Chinese people are pigs for not invading other sovereign countries randomly (Myanmar) or defending it's people from ethnic cleansing by the Tibet people against the Han-Chinese population (link goes to a report by the only western journalist who was actually there - all other reports are just quoting the exile government in India), they are quite a bit suspicious towards us and our so-called free and just media, and rightly so. Us Westeners sabotaging the path of the eternal fire, or not preventing Tibet terrorists from doing so, on it's way to Beijing as a way to get back at them for stopping ethnic cleansing isn't exactly helping matters - especially not when it's done by traveling across the world, just to beat up a girl in a wheelchair - because that's usually the best way to get sympathies.
To make matters worse, I know the largest Swedish newspapers publish Photoshop jobs (publishing photos of a large group of Chinese polices - but failing to include the even larger group of angry activists next to them) and pure lies (pictures of Nepalese officials treating activists badly, and claiming that they're Chinese) as proof of how evil the Chinese government is.
After this, I have no problems seeing why one would try to limit the access for one's people to these lies - the only thing it would result in is civil war, something that is never good, and would hurt the Chinese process towards giving the people a decent standard of living, freedom of speech, and, eventually, democracy.
Feudal Theocracy.
If they'd have had oil, they'd have been declared an axis of evil by now.
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Summary: -China is not Poland -If you've ever gone to China, known nothing about Chinese culture,history,...etc.., You just leave China forever