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20 Years After Tiananmen, China Stifles Online Dissent
alphadogg writes with this snippet from Network World: "The Internet has brought new hope to reformists in China since the country crushed pro-democracy protests in the capital 20 years ago. But as dissidents have gone high-tech, the government in turn has worked to restrict free speech on the Internet, stifling threats to its rule that could grow online. China has stepped up monitoring of dissidents and Internet censorship ahead of June 4, when hundreds were killed in 1989 after Beijing sent soldiers to its central Tiananmen Square to disperse protestors. The authoritarian government wants to ensure that date and other sensitive anniversaries this year pass without public disturbances, observers say. In recent months, China has blocked YouTube and closed two blog hosting sites, bullog.cn and fatianxia.com, known for their liberal content."
And people say it is tin foil hat if you point out the thousands of hiding in plain sight high tech spies that China has in the US and all over the world.
There is going to be a day when China and the US cha cha over some issue, and all these students and businessmen here are going to be getting phone calls from back home and they will follow orders and sabotage a shitload of stuff. They are already stealing anything that isn't nailed down. And your anecdotal goes to help prove that, brainwashing from birth works.
Opening up normalized trade with China and allowing the wall street scumbag traitors (and I think they should be charged and treated like traitors) to sell off everything and destroy manufacturing in the US, combined with this ludicrous allowance of high tech spies having unfettered access to what is left, loosely now called our IP, is the biggest policy blunder the US ever made. Our economy is collapsing from it, and we will suffer militarily from it at some point. They don't care, China is still a massive master/slave society. The same set of insane tyrants who killed off 60 million of their own people are still in charge (or now their brainwashed children), just now WE are paying their salaries. WE are paying them to control Africa, where the last remaining good sources of critical minerals are located. WE are paying them to build the largest military ever, advancing at a rate ten times faster than the entire western world combined. And before some internet mastermind cares to quote figures, remember a dollar goes a lot further in China than it does in the US. So take the published numbers and multiply China's rate by several times over, both in dollars and percentage of budgets, to get a better picture of their rate of military buildup. Their rate of military expansion will surpass the US easily within 20 years, at the same time as our military is being ground into the sand and rocks in stupid little penny ante wars, and their gross economy will surpass the US within 5 to 10 years now (most estimates now are settling on around 2015), and combined with their manufacturing might, that means that they will be able to pump out ten fighters or advanced missiles for our one, and so on down the list.
And it doesn't matter what tech we develop in the west, the Chinese have been and will continue to get their hands on it, one way or the other. They either steal or or buy it, but they get it all. We will shortly be losing any sort of high tech advantage, and we will never be able to gain any sort of manufacturing advantage now. They aren't even hiding this! You can find their position papers and read it! They consider the US to be their number one military threat and are actively working to neutralize that threat. This isn't a joke.
They have beaten and surpassed EVERY DOD and CIA analyst prediction that I have read over the last decade. The military they are constructing is for one purpose, to expand forcefully globally and control as much land and resources as possible, and they are counting on several million exported citizens to be spies now and saboteurs then, when the time is necessary for them to be used. Even if those people don't know it, having friends and family back home to be used as an inducement, plus their ingrained brainwashing about how China can do no wrong. That will be enough so that most of them will follow the orders they get in that phone call or text message.
Isn't that special.
The world is running out of resources, we are approaching peak everything, and once it gets to China gets them, or anyone else, China will do what it takes to triumph. Anything. Anyone who fails to see this by now is living in denial.
We've had now 20 years of absolute proof, nothing has changed over there except they got a LOT richer and more powerful and are constructing the most high tech police state imaginable, and their brainwashed people are mostly OK with that.
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Oh, I've all in favor of the First Amendment. But I've proven my point that others do not given my "Troll" moderation. IE, they do not want my voice to be heard.
Life is not for the lazy.
American's who are unaware of such things should lose their right to vote.
My Guess is that most un-educated ignorant people would be voting for the Republicans anyway so there would be no major loss...