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China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn
thefickler writes "The Chinese Government is expanding a crackdown on Internet pornography. Xinhua news agency, which is owned by the government and can safely be used for reporting in China, says the campaign to scrub the country's Internet of 'vulgar' content has so far resulted in 29 criminal cases. Police have ordered the removal of 46,000 pornographic and other 'harmful' items from websites. The latest crackdown comes after official warnings of rising social unrest as the economy slows. It's no coincidence that this year is the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, or, to use the acceptable nomenclature, 'the June 4th incident.'"
OK, I understand why they would want to choke civil unrest by censoring dissidents online, but porn? How's that helping them?
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What morals or principles are the Chinese government claiming to enforce with this?
But, but.... I need it.
No, it really _is_ a coincident that China started targeting porn sites on the twentieth anniversary of 'the June 4th incident'.
You think they looked at the calendar and realized... OMG, this is the year we must start censoring internet porn!
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Imagine if they did that in our countries? You would feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Slashdotters cried out in anger and considered stepping outside of their home to do something about it.
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What do you think all the civil unrest is about? Chinese officials themselves have said they were preparing themselves for a year of chaos. Not sure that'll be enough for them to get rid of their government, provided that's even what the protesters want.
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"28 suspects arrested in the campaign included 4 men in their twenties who ran the Midnight Prostitute Call website from eastern China. They also included two men accused of using a video chat service to defraud customers."
What I don't understand is that if there are so many damn people in China why they don't just overthrow their government... it wouldn't be difficult.
Well, a lot of chinese people happen to like the chinese government and approve of what's going on, at least enough to put up with it. I'm sure a lot of people around the world were probably wondering why Americans didn't overthrow Bush. I personally hated the guy from before day one, but I wouldn't want to overthrow the government even if we were facing 8 more years of Bush. Probably similar in China, they don't agree with everything, but the government does reflect a lot of their values, an overthrow would be damaging, and they don't see a lot of other people willing to rise up.
It's not like the government holds on to power entirely by force, in other words.
Communism just got personal.
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Safe for use by second and third parties to redistribute published news, in that if you republish or distribute a Xinhua article in the PRC, you probably won't get arrested, because the article's already been vetted. It doesn't mean "safe to take for granted, without scepticism".
Countries that censor news often don't explicitly define what is acceptable, and the standards can change often, hence why internal political commentators need to rely on such gauges to see what the current acceptable topics are.
It's not like America with a puritanical past, Communist regimes actually tend to suppress religion. Not that most eastern religions were like the western ones. I think the Soviet Union didn't care about that stuff, but am not entirely sure.
So what's the deal?
Well take away their porn and you'll see what kind of civil unrest that'll cause...
Hey thanks for the list :-)
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The Chinese government is obviously correct, right, accurate, faultless, unerring, precise, exact, and correct. The Chinese government is the most noble organization of any kind in the world and is made up entirely of honorable, worthy, reputable, and decent individuals who have the best interests of the country at heart. It is horrible that any harmful content is allowed to exist and as such it should be removed. The Chinese government is correct in this just as it is correct in every decision it makes. The Chinese government is perfect and praiseworthy. This story makes just one more example of why the Chinese government is the best in the world and why China is the best place to live in the world.
Id like to see that in a porn film, the girl yelling out, "freedom to all, death to taxes, no riaa, get rid of older 50yos in govt!!!, release all aliens info"
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
step 1. Get the names of all communist govt people, and all army people and all police people.
step 2. Get their home addresses, and family names.
step 3. do the coup, while the police/army are rounding up people, go to their homes and take them hostage.
step 4. over throw govt, no cop/army guy will be in sight as they all will be going home.
Expect all routers/internet to be turned off, so make sure everyone gets ham radio sets.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Maybe they do. I've never watched a porn film through to the end.
step 1. Get the names of all communist govt people, and all army people and all police people.
step 2. Get their home addresses, and family names.
That's really the easy part, all you have to do is look them all up on the Red Pages (redpages.cn), that's like the White Pages except that on top of giving the phone number and name it also gives you their occupation, street address, maiden name and birth date.
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the china officials have already been found coult red-handed with porn on government servers:
http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2008/03/cult-of-the-dea.html
any they ironically didnt find any on us offical servers..
a lot of chinese people happen to like the chinese government and approve of what's going on
Quite right. This is anecdotal, but the Chinese people I've spoken with about this simply do not see the problems that I try to ask them about. They largely agree with what the Chinese government is doing. They see government as their protector, and mostly agree/assume that "the government knows best." They point to the remarkable progress and advancement in China (in terms of tech, economy, society, etc.) to prove their point.
At worst, I've gotten some of them to begrudgingly admit that some things the government is doing may be "necessary compromises" in order for the country as a whole to grow.
Those that I've met are among the more educated and traveled/worldly of the Chinese population. I'm not sure which way that biases the sample. I'm well-aware that there are dissidents in China trying to stop things like censorship; but doing so must be exceedingly difficult when the average person (and even the "intellectual elite" if you will) support the government.
Overthrowing a Government just means you'll end up replacing it with something that'll eventually become worse.
The best course of action is to talk to them, remind them why Governments should be afraid of their people and not the other way around.
Please note, this doesn't necessarily mean using violence.
A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein
Id like to see that in a porn film, the girl yelling out, "freedom to all, death to taxes, no riaa, get rid of older 50yos in govt!!!, release all aliens info"
Porn actresses rarely share the same agenda as libertarian Slashdotters, you know? ;-)
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It's not like the government holds on to power entirely by force, in other words.
Just because the threat is more often implied than actually followed through doesn't mean that force wasn't or isn't used. China has made so many 'examples' over the years that most people are easily pacified with just a disapproving look from a policeman. For those who aren't there is always the re-education camp where attitudes, among other things, are adjusted.
The same reason system administrators are reluctant to reboot their production servers in order to apply a kernel patch that fixes serious performance issues. Government downtime is costly. And in this case we have a fairly invasive patch involving a new algorithm, and although the algorithm itself is well researched, the specific implementation needs extensive testing for which good spare hardware is unavailable.
If only we had a good simulator to test political ideas on...
Don't you usually skip to the end when you're ready to finish? ...or is that just me?
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I think the Soviet Union didn't care about that stuff, but am not entirely sure.
Government persecution of Christianity continued unabated until the fall of the Communist government, with Stalin's reign the most repressive.
Stalin is quoted as saying that "The Party cannot be neutral towards religion. It conducts an anti-religious struggle against any and all religious prejudices."
A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein
So are libertarian Slashdotters betraying their principles when watching porn?
Or is it just that they are wankers?
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In the past, the government had done many gang/crime enforces during certain month of year before, they call it "Yan Da" which basically mean strict enforcement.
But everyone in china knows that It doesn't solve anything permanently and the people who are involve with such act just keep low profile and wait for it finish.
As for the porn busting thing.. my coworkers are making jokes about it and pulling out any thing vaguely sexual. such as, you can't mention "Mei Nv"(beatiful girl) in the game description.
Bottom line, Everything will be business as usual in a month or two.
We Europeans asked ourselves the same question when Bush Jr. got 'voted' president. Obviously, the American population did not find their situation as bad as we outsiders.
Same thing with Britain. Either it looks worse than it is from the outside or the people have been lulled into a false sense of 'everything's okay'.
Sure, if one of your principles is to avoid anything produced by anyone who doesn't strictly adhere to your beliefs and principles.
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"The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now."
Yeah, I know Orwell wasn't writing about internet porn, but still...
Great Idea China. In the face of falling property prices, your economy slumping and people losing their jobs and riots growing... take away their porn.
http://www.propertywire.com/news/asia/property-prices-fell-sharply-china-2008-200901072355.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYY3ugKb9diKGictWunUrDVu-aBw http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/07012009/323/china-fears-recession-riots-europe-joblessness-grows.html http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/20/china.jobs/index.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKPEK226188 http://libcom.org/news/chinese-factory-workers-riot-26112008
That is actually not entirely true. Many Chinese people still do not see our point-of-view and perspectives. "Brainwash" is probably the closest colloquial term I can think of at the moment, without the science hoo-ha.
The belief that the Chinese government is good and all-powerful is rooted in their society; in other words, they are BROUGHT UP thinking the Chinese government is good, so asking those people if the government is good is moot. It is analogous to why boys like car toys or action-hero figurines or why girls like to play dress-up and barbie dolls in the Western world. It is simply a norm; and like always, not everyone follows the norm (and so you will have dissidents even in China), but a good majority do follow. Not to mention, if you don't like the government, you get in all sorts of trouble, legally or illegally. You just don't hear about them because of China's censoring policies. To get a better perspective, you really have to watch one of the foreign language outlets close to China such as Japanese of Taiwanese News to get a better understanding.
Only if you get off on credits
Only if they paid for it.
this month's cheque bounced. they got raided. nobody else is going to skip a payment...
South Korean authorities have arrested a blogger for saying the won will fall after he predicted that Lehman Brothers would implode. Apparently he is being charged with "spreading false information" -- which seems funny to me, if the guy is predicting the future, how does the government know it is false? Are they claiming to be able to see the future?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
with over a billion people, I'd want to have male births outnumber female births for awhile, and then take away all the porn.
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Or their basement, for that matter.
The Chinese government has managed to rocket China from an impoverished post-WWII and post civil-war famine-plagued disaster into the modern China of today in under sixty years.
That's absolutely amazing.
To expect our idea of freedom and democracy to work in China is to ignore its situation and culture. The US and Europe haven't had serious famines in living memory. China has.
Order and prosperity are more important than freedom.
People don't generally revolt because they aren't free, they revolt because freedom is seen as the path to prosperity they do not have.
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Maybe it's similar to the kind of push we get here -- porn is seen as immoral, and is a natural scapegoat, so no one minds censoring it. From there, it's easy to justify censoring whatever you want -- after all, it does say "other 'harmful' items..."
Now, granted, the US is at least only censoring child porn, so far, which we can all agree on, right? And swear words, now, in South Carolina, if that bill passes -- which we can all agree on, right? See how slippery the slope is?
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Well, women do, if only to find out whether they marry or not in the end...
My 0.02 cents
What's wrong with prostitution? It's my body and if I want to have an abortion & kill a fetus, I can due to those bodily rights. Likewise I should be free to sell my body in exchange fox wages. There's no valid reason to limit how I use MY body, unless you endorse enslavement.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
As much as people want to complain about Bush, he didn't use censorship. One needs only look at all the people that were allowed to complain about him. For all the "fears" of liberals about Bush's various legislation taking away there freedoms, we still have all the freedom we had before he got in. The true test will come with this next president. The liberals have been whining a lot because they can't some up with a version of "talk radio" that actually survives on its own--public "welfare" radio doesn't count because it gets government funding and doesn't have the audience talk radio does. All the efforts to create a liberal talk radio network failed because they were just nauseating cheer leaders for the liberals. They never questioned, or challenged, the liberals when they strayed from the agenda. This is why conservative talk radio took off. They were not afraid to let the conservative leaders have to their face when they came on the show. Look at the liberals in almost any interview that isn't on a conservative show. They don't get asked the really hard questions, and if they are asked, they are allowed to skate by with a lame answer. It is nauseating. Like the current economic depression in the United States (I don't know about anything outside of the US), the media is over dramatizing the effects. There are unemployed people, but not as many as they want you to think. There are plenty of under-employed people--like myself. I hate what I am doing now, but I am employed and paying my bills. I am smart enough to know that things will not always be rosy. There will have times when I am doing things I don't like. The point of this comment is you have to always consider the source of the news and ask questions about it. Use your brain for something other than a hat rest.
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And how is this any different from Americans? Other than, of course, Chinese not messing with other countries regardless on their point of view on the quality of governments there.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
As much as people want to complain about Bush, he didn't use censorship.
As much as people want to complain about China, at least China didn't wage war on the rest of the world.
I guess different things matter to different people.
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Don't you usually skip to the end when you're ready to finish? ...or is that just me?
I don't know what's scarier - his wanking practices being marked "informative" or the fact that his name is "SQuiRT".
Do you have ESP?
AH, like the truth.
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Id like to see that in a porn film, the girl yelling out, "freedom to all, death to taxes, no riaa, get rid of older 50yos in govt!!!, release all aliens info"
Oh, you'll like her.
Cicciolina is a Hungarian-born Italian porn-star and occasional singer, turned politician and the first hardcore performer in the world to be elected to a democratic parliament
You can't take the sky from me...
You watch movies with guys at all in them? That's gay.
You keep using that word...
I'd say that this feeble anti-porn initiative occurring 20 years after Tiananmen is a great example of a coincidence.
(Why do people get so excited about anniversaries anyway?!)
Perhaps a less muddled way of making your point might be to say, "Twenty years after Tiananmen, not much has changed in government policy." But we all learned that anyway, through the disgusting, ugly, wasteful and pathetic charade that was the 2008 Olympics.
you had me at #!
Who are constantly trying for the same double play.
you had me at #!
the Chinese people I've spoken with about this simply do not see the problems that I try to ask them about.
You forget that the Chinese put a great deal of importance on "saving face", and really won't share some more private, internal matters, such as feelings of discord about the government with anyone who is not a close friend. You did not get an accurate picture.
Not to mention there are a great deal of patriots, who would never speak ill of the government because they "Love China"
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
The Chinese government has managed to rocket China from an impoverished post-WWII and post civil-war famine-plagued disaster into the modern China of today in under sixty years.
Also notice that all that rocketing happened in the last half of that time frame. The first half was spent wasting staggering amounts of human life.
So, after holding back China for a few decades, they're back to the single-party capitalist system of Republic they overthrew -- while proclaiming the new model was actually "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" (ie, not Socialism). Given their past history and what they've done to the nation, I absolutely refuse to give them any credit for their belated accomplishments, which they came upon by making every single wrong decision first.
It was a lot of American students that were pushing the Chinese students to fight the government.
No, it was not. That is a little conspiracy theory that the most patriotic of Chinese will peddle as a catalyst for the Tiananmen Square protests. Blame the Americans rather than their own people. It has no basis in fact.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
Internet censorship will never work, neither will a voluntary reorganization to xxx.com. I hate the thought of kids running across the stuff you can see out there.
Granted, my silly product is abit risque, but probably half the reason it's not made me any money, is because I'm not willing to go the extra mile and have outright nudity and stuff on the site. Too racy for mainstream, too clean for pr0n. (Ya, Slashdot wouldn't run a story on it either!)
Anyway, the netnanny type of stuff is the only answer to protect the young and those governments that want to, uh, protect their people. Maybe that's what they need, and I'm sure the Chinese government would be willing to pay for half a billion legitimate licenses...
Bleah, give them access to pr0n and all the free viagra they want, and maybe the balls of the last 3 tigers on earth won't be ground into "traditional medicines".
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<sarcasm>Your right. China SO much better than Bush. Why didn't I see that?</sarcasm>
I know...because your wrong. Bush didn't wage war on the rest of the world. There was a lot of misrepresentation on the part of most of the media about Iraq. WW II was a lot worse, but if you believed them, then Iraq was far worse! Bush preemptively attacked two nations who were supporters of terrorism before they could harm us more. Both now have a freely elected governments, and Iraq is now running their own security. The plan was always to hand over (& eventually leave) the country when Iraq was capable of protecting itself. That is now the case, and we now have a timetable to leave with Iraq able to stand on their own. If you believed Obama, Clinton, et. al. then this was never going to be possible. They were wrong, and the media, and the liberals, misrepresented Iraq to a majority of the people in order make themselves look better to regain power. A lot of people/suckers fell for the smoke and mirrors.
Bush liberated people, and China suppresses people. They censor the internet, and they use their prisoners (some of whom are just religious people) for spare body parts for other people. Did you get a transplant from China? Then it came from a prisoner (also (second article),). To be fair China has placed a ban on sales of body parts requiring a signature from the donor, but I don't know how this effects the human body parts harvesting from prisoners.
China doesn't need to place a value on human life because they have over a quarter of the population of the Earth (even with the 1 baby per family law). The value of life in China is cheap. Kill one person, and there are still many left to take that persons place. Take the treatment of baby girls. According to this article China is taking steps to prevent this from completely devastating their population.
<sarcasm>Oh yeah, you are so right, Bush is so much worse. Didn't you hear about the human harvesting in the inner city?</sarcasm> For those that don't get it, there is no human harvesting in the inner city.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
First of all, YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Furthermore, let me just say that we in the rest of the world do not see these things the way you do. Your rhetoric is pathetic, and as long as your army goes on killing people all over the world, please do shut up about the value of human life. I have lived through a war in my own country, which I am willing to bet you have not; kindly do not give me this kind of propaganda-shit. After living through a war, I'm immune.
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No, To expect our idea of freedom and democracy to work in China is to believe that democracy transcends culture. That freedom is not a cultural accident, but speaks to a more fundamental aspect of the human experience, which all deserve.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
It's not really an argument for or against prostitution, merely a point that it isn't just China that cracks down on prostitution Websites, Catholic organizer charged in online sex sting.
Troll or not, you are immune from nothing. So what if you have lived through a war in your country. Plenty of people have. The US has not because, in the past, we don't generally let the war come to our country. We are smart enough to realize that it is best to fight the battles before they are on our front doorstep and in our front yards. If the rest of the world would get off their posteriors and take care of the small, and big, fires around the world, the US would more than likely just stay in our own country, but let's face it the United Nations is pathetic. Their peace forces are useless, a joke, and sometimes even criminal, and don't even start with accusations of "American soldiers are committing war crimes" because when they do, we prosecute the soldiers. Most of the time, as in this latest struggle for Iraq, the rest of the world believed liberal propaganda that was simply not true at best (& down right lies at worst). It's not my fault you people are suckers. I have heard from American soldiers in Iraq, and a vast majority them were shocked at the misinformation displayed by the likes of CNN et. al..
If the US pulled out of everywhere today. I am sure a lot of people would be happy--like dictators who abuse their people. I also know that the Europeans would probably do nothing but "talk" about the problem and try to negotiate with no positive results. Most of the time (not all of the time) if something needs to be done the US has to do it because nobody else will. This is not propaganda it is just the truth. If the rest of the world doesn't like the way the US is handling things, then they should start solving problems around the world instead of sitting on their collective rear ends bitching at their TVs, radios, etc. because the Americans are doing it all wrong in their experienced and expert opinion.
Get off your high horse and get a clue. The US does stuff because the rest of the world generally won't do anything. Some in America still believe it is possible to make the world a better place for everyone. It will not happen by everyone holding hands and sing peace songs. Some still believe it is possible to make a change for the better, and that governments should be by the people and of the people. Some of us still believe that differences of opinion need not lead to fighting, but the differences sometimes do lead to fighting--and should only lead to fight as a last resort when ones nation/self is in danger. (Of course, there are exceptions.) I know you are not smart enough to read this with an open mind because you just hate the US (or just hate my comments an/or me). In fact you'll probably reply with another troll or lame comment at best. That seems to be all your capable of at the moment.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
If you try to interview those freshly fired sweatshop workers in Guangdong, they'll have a different opinion.
The educated and traveled/worldly Chinese population is also those in the the top 1% income bracket in China - have you seen one of those Dongguan sweatshop workers in the United States? Even those guys and girls are doing much better than their rural counterparts. If you're among the top 1% earners of your country, have a nice house (or more than one house), a nice car, a nice wife, eats gourmet food every day, people hail and bow down to you every day, can freely cut into queues due to your "good relations" with government officials, etc... Then of course you'll feel fine and dandy.
They don't have to convince themselves, things are fine and dandy for THEM. It's just not so nice for the other 99% of the population.
I always thought it was mainly the puritan/protestant/western religious values that drove our (i.e. Western) governments and institutions to not like porno.
Recently I've discovered India "outlaws" (according the book I read) porn and now China is cracking down. If anything, I'd think they wouldn't care. What is it in these Eastern cultures that makes them not like porn? I didn't think they were uptight like that.
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So stupid. Apparently. porn is bad but outright prostitution is okay. China has such a massive prostitution industry, high-end brothels literally in major city centers with bright neon lights. They are sex KTVs, sex showers, sex massage, sex 'barber shops' and advertised call girls services. Places ranging from $50USD all the way up to $1000USD and beyond.
The US doesn't do stuff because by golly, someone should. You do it because you profit from it. Even if your government is from the people and for the people (which is a laughable delusion in itself), it does not speak for the rest of the world. The rest of the world did not get to veote. So kindly do sod off.
I wish you could see yourself from my eyes. Americans like you are the reason a good part of the rest of the world despises you.
Your empire will fall. I might live to see it. Your bully face will be stupefied with shock. I'll just watch the fire.
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Second that. I was just going to ask why it was assumed that the chinese were the ones brainwashed instead of us, or more realistically, both.
The Chinese are in many ways a very proud people. (I suppose that they have a few millennia of encouraging imperial history to lean on.) In their mind they are the best - and if they aren't already the best in some minor area they will soon be, thanks to their economic progress.
That's true of pretty much every country, although the specific reason of economic progress is different in each case. It's definitely true of the US. Reminds me of a great quote by David Sedaris:
"Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are bown between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!'"
Sure there are some in China that are just fine with the government as it exists. Keep em' stupid and happy is the goal of most government.
But then you get the malcontents. That is why a) Taiwan and even Hong Kong exist and b) There are a hell of a lot of Chinese in the U.S.
The introduction of capitalism has managed to rocket China from an impoverished post-WWII and post civil-war famine-plagued disaster into the modern China of today in under thirty years.
Fixed that for you.
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Americans can read Xinhua's english news (and I do, sometimes). Chinese are usually blocked from western news in their language. Not having the option to look at other viewpoints is a bit different from just not bothering.
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I see, so in a way it's like "think of the children/teh terrists" here, it's only here to create a leverage to do other stuff, like censoring or wiretapping.
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Western do-gooders bringing food and medical care to third-world countries accounts for much of population growth. Having lots of kids (with multiple wives, in some cases) has been the encouraged norm for centuries because it was the only way to ensure at least one or two survived to adulthood (disease, famine, and infant mortality, you know).
Enter the Western do-gooders. Suddenly, almost all children survived to adulthood, and the average life expectancy increased dramatically. Population boom, but the available resources remained the same.
So, if you want to solve third-world overpopulation problems, cut off the foreign aid and let natural equilibrium with the environment resume.
Harsh, but nonetheless true--and effective.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Masturbation and casual sex are at their core, about the individual. The pleasure of the individual. In a totalitarian society, having people caring more about themselves than the ruling party can cause problems.
The content of my message was straight from any mainstream media in the free world and also supportive of ordinary Chinese people but apparently some CCP regime backer (a communist/fascist who supports Chinese regime's oppression) has kept me on his hitlist.
It is tragic that they can roam freely to suppress others' freedom of speech and opinion while no one is allowed to support those freedoms in China.
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?