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Chinese Reactions To Google Leaving China
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Most people have already heard western media reactions to Google leaving China proper and redirecting search traffic to its Hong Kong branch, but ChinaSMACK has translated comments from average Chinese internet users so that non-Chinese can understand how the Chinese public feels. While many of them are supportive of the government on some level, they were able to obtain many comments by those critical of the government before they could be 'harmonized' (deleted) and translated those as well. The deleted comments often complain about the wumao (50 cent party), government employees who are paid 50 cents RMB per post supporting the government, and worry that the Chinese Internet will become a Chinese LAN."
The Chinese people don't leally cale about Google. So I do not undelstand why we talk so much about this. Just my 50 ct.
So you're saying McDonald's is not going to pull out of China because they'd all starve?
"Blah blah blah." - [citation needed]
well, that's cause Americans are inexplicably stupid.
sorry. impossible to resist.
What you're missing is the "wrong" and "right" of the situation. Europeans are right, Americans and Chinese are wrong, in addition to being vulgar and uncivilized.
Lol, mighty confident of yourself aren't you? Kinda funny how easy it is to switch the two groups around in that sentence without contradicting anything else in your post.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
This also works
You know it's weird. I'm actually in France right now, living in a dorm with a lot of American foreign students. One of them told me how his father was actually one of the students at Kent State. OH, and after the incident burned a book filled with writings of his classmates so that the government wouldn't find it and record his previous affiliations on his resume.
This guy also tells me how shocked he was after he came to France and was finally able to see the Kent State videos on Youtube (blocked in America of course), and how it's changed his views of his government. According to him, a lot of American youth are extremely nationalistic, and are "brainwashed" by the government. The government hires people to parrot their views of events as if they're normal citizens telling their own personal viewpoints.
He told me he himself used to like his life in America, but now that he's realized the truth about his government, he'd prefer not to go back to America after his study period in France is over.
Not entirely on-topic, and mod me down if you must, but I just thought it was interesting how this American guy has become disconnected from his country and his own people, who seem to be influenced so heavily by their government.
The point I am trying to make is that all governments everywhere try to control their populations one way or another
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