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China Slams Clinton's Call For Internet Freedom
CWmike writes "China on Friday slammed remarks made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promoting Internet freedom worldwide, saying her words harmed US-China relations. Clinton's speech and China's response both come after Google last week said it planned to reverse its long-standing position in China by ending censorship of its Chinese search engine. Google cited increasingly tough censorship and recent cyberattacks on the Gmail accounts of human rights activists for its decision, which it said might force it to close its offices in China altogether. On Thursday in Washington, DC, Clinton unveiled US initiatives to help people living under repressive governments access the Internet for purposes such as reporting corruption. The US will support circumvention tools for dissidents whose Internet connections are blocked, she said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu called for the US 'to respect the facts and stop using the issue of so-called Internet freedom to unreasonably criticize China.' China's laws forbid hacking attacks and violations of citizens' privacy, the statement said, apparently referring to the issues raised by Google."
ahh, that would be telling :) but seriously, you can do the google searches for "TETRA modem", "Ontology Classifier", "Knowledge Systems" for a few weeks just as well as anyone can.
and no, i'm not "important", just reasonably persistent and intelligent.
i know. amazing, isn't it. i put it down to being realistic and mentioning the phrase "statistical sample of one", and specifically mentioning that it's "personal experience and observation" rather than "fact". if i'd said "it's a fact! because i said so!" then quite rightly i'd be called out as being a nut-job and a dick.
If they lived here they'd have the freedom to watch only Fox News.
/. has one of the best censorship systems in existence. Troll mods will rescue us all!
:) whew, thank god: for a minute there i was worried that people might think i was being serious. instead, fortunately, people think i'm seriously promoting "myself" and deliberately saying things just for the sake of causing trouble.
paraphrasing aldous huxley: facts don't go away just because you ignore them.
the trouble is that empirical evidence - especially that of personally-experienced evidence and thus the conclusions that can be derived from those personal experiences - _can_ be ignored...
You are lying about still being in China. Wikipedia has been unblocked for a LONG time now. I'm sitting here in my apartment in Beijing reading about Descartes on Wikipedia.
Also, the censorship aspect of Youtube and Facebook etc is a ruse. The main reason for them being blocked in protectionism. Control of information is a great secondary benefit. It's no coincidence that Facebook was blocked right around when it started gain traction outside of the US, including China, and several local sites here also began to pick up traction.
There is a fine line between being a cultivated citizen and being someone else's crop. - A. J. Patrick Liszkie
How will she backpedal this time after we make menacing statements on how reliable we think T-Bonds are? How will Obama clean up her mess?
If you want to get real progress on the real issues between China and the United States (i.e. NOT HUMAN RIGHTS), keep Hillary out of it. We'd like to discuss and make progress on those issues but not when Hillary the irrational China-Hater is out there spewing garbage about "human rights".