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China to Regulate Internet Map Publishing
hackingbear writes "After text, pictures, and videos, China starts regulating Internet map publishing (here is the google translation.) The government believes that Internet maps can represent the state's sovereignty and its political and diplomatic positions in the international community — and consequently, inaccurate maps could harm national interests and dignity, produce bad political influences, reveal national secrets and harm national security, in addition to harming consumer interests. So from now on, publishing maps would require approval and (yet another) license from the state survey bureau. That means Google, Yahoo, etc., need to remove China from the map; or maybe they just pay up some officials and their agents to acquire yet another license. And our newest 80Gbps DPI monsters need to be upgraded to identify maps together with porn."
national sovereignty and religious superiority is an illusion. there is nothing unique about being russian, or chinese, or muslim, or christian, or american, or any nationality or religious identity. of course, blind nationalist pride and religious bigotry are founded on the bedrock concept of exclusivity, superiority
and what they reap form that falsehood is violence, hated, and war
this world is a long way from peace. to get there, billions more must die in the name of moronic tribal pride before people learn the price they pay simply for believing they are superior because of their nationality or religion
so go china go: you are inculcating your rise on the world stage in the same way germany and japan did, the same way the usa and the uk did. your neighbors should pay attention, and batten the hatches. when, not if, china experiences an economic downturn, i fully expect a demagogue to rise to power and reap the "benefits" of the rabid nationalism china breeds on purpose to deflect criticism away from china
mark these words: the sense of religious suepriority they breed in riyadh and the sense of nationalist superiority they breed in beijing does not fade away, and it demands a pound of flesh
the psychosis of pride. it is blind, and leads to violence. and it is inevitable
only bloodshed will come of chinese nationalism and arab religious bigotry
i am 100% certainty on that. it does not fade away on its own. it is venom that once made, must claim lives
until the nationalists and religious bigots lose their influence. and that only comes when the common chinese and the common arab see the price they pay for their blind pride in the damage they do to themselves and their neighbors for thinking themselves so superior
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
We should pay attention. This bossy, little China is the model for the new Merka the Republicrats have in mind for us.
All the joys of capitalism without the pain of real competetion. Recipe for disaster it is.
illegitimii non ingravare
If people think Saddam was insane and needs to be removed they need to read some Chinese history and look at their actions. Tibet, Taiwan, the rest of the world... China sees itself as having a divine right, a manifest destiny, and it brutally slaughters millions - of its own people and others - to achieve this destiny. If other countries invade one another they call it a war. China claims (and its people seem to believe) that its actions are of a peaceful nature, as they threaten to invade Taiwan (and historically, kill millions), invade Tibet (and kill millions), etc. China talks about going to war with Taiwan, to return their 'wayward brothers' to the fold. Very self-serving. "Criminals" (whose crime was saying something inconvenient while having the right blood-type.) are harvested for their organs, and students are shot for reading the "wrong" (read, right) books.
So no. China has *no* "sovereign power". For that they'd have to be a legitimate nation. For that they'd have to rule with the mandate of the people - not by terrorizing the people. They do have a lot of guns, and have brainwashed and terrorized millions into supporting their wars, but that's no different than a common dictator. That was Saddam's claim to legitimacy.
In other words, China has as much sovereign right as a violent step-dad... They've got the power and the motivation to use it brutally, but they don't rule with the mandate of the people and do everything possible to avoid doing so.
We'd step in and take children away from a violent step-parent, why don't we step in and take Tibet away from a violent conqueror? All because of the stupid idea that slavery is just dandy as long as you practice it on people who look like you and any abuses are just family matters, not genocide, if you do them inside a line painted on a map.
It's fucking revolting that we legitimize them at all with the trappings of a society when we might as well laud Jeffery Dahmer's population-management techniques. They're sociopathic murderers and need to be called that.
The world is shocked that Austrian guy kept his daughter in a cage for twenty years, but that's nothing compared to what goes on in China and we just brush it off, calling it a sovereign matter. Why is murder/rape horrible when it happens to one person, but acceptable when it happens to millions as part of day-to-day running of a country?