Checking people opinions is not the major purpose of this system. The main purpose of this system is to check organised crime and online prostitution, and content management for under-age kids. which is a much bigger problem in China than in self-serviced lip-serviced "free" countries.
Probably english speakers ignoring chinese backgrounds prefer to fantasize about how the "poor" chinese folks are getting repressed, just like in the cold-war style adventure-video-games, which is all they know.
What is needed to understand China ? 1) speak chinese (mandarin or cantonese) 2) live in China a few years. 3) while there, make sure you mingle with
locals daily, rather than just staying
in "high-standard-only" circles, like
cisco crap.
Chinese folks prefer a government who may be a bit too authoritative, but does tells openly it is so, rather than a pretended "democracy" who lies about what it is.
Lying, for chinese minds, is not acceptable, or you're a potential criminal. Silence is better than lying. In other countries, lying is "acceptable" as long as your tongue doesn't burn. Silence is long gone and forgotten.
Chinese people know what's going on in their own country, including SARS, reforms, internet cafes and what not. Chinese people also know what's going on in other countries. Chinese people don't need anybody to save them. Chinese people don't have bloated illusory pride to save others before saving himself.
China has more broadband internet than any english-speaking country. ah, yes, we read that news, but forgot it. that's what double standard is about. remember those cool fights in matrix, then thought so "revolutionary" in the filming industry, that now everybody immitates yet can't match, well, that's made in China. The best martial arts are still in China, no matter how hard you try to improve on imported versions.
Chinese women ranks equal to men in their job. When China means equal, it actually does mean equal. Some other countries are yet helding that as a distant future goal, and in the meantime self-satifying the big hole with morality debates.
Chinese People do a much better job at diplomacy, at going to Africa to help folks without being christian. Having their military fix bigger-than-el-nino flood disasters with a very tight budget, every year. Rather than, say, going military overseas with a more-than-microsoft budget telling others what to do and how to think; and yet not giving its own unexperienced but good troops proper bullet-proof equipments so they have to buy their own life-saving equipement with a virtual-only salary. What a demo'cracy is of people can't tell its own government not to keep doing a mistake; where opinion polls are faked daily basis. Before fantasizing about china internet automated filtering, may be start fantasizing about CNN/fox-news brain-dead-based filtering. much more effective. much more pervert. May be it's time to end this filtering with something concrete before very too late. only very little time is left.
China saves, yet when they do, they never speak about it, a subtle difference which is near impossible to understand in other languages. The chinese mind don't even think they did anything great. If that concept sounds far-fetched, in any case, it is one with the chinese mind.
Enforced democracy has no value in souls. Enforcement happens anytime something was not asked for. cold war brain masturbators are better at minding their own business.
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I live in China, from where I am posting this.
Checking people opinions is not
the major purpose of this system.
The main purpose of this system is to check
organised crime and online prostitution,
and content management for under-age kids.
which is a much bigger problem in China than
in self-serviced lip-serviced "free" countries.
Probably english speakers ignoring chinese
backgrounds prefer to fantasize about how the
"poor" chinese folks are getting repressed,
just like in the cold-war style adventure-video-games, which is all they know.
What is needed to understand China ?
1) speak chinese (mandarin or cantonese)
2) live in China a few years.
3) while there, make sure you mingle with
locals daily, rather than just staying
in "high-standard-only" circles, like
cisco crap.
Chinese folks prefer a government who may be
a bit too authoritative, but does tells openly
it is so, rather than a pretended "democracy"
who lies about what it is.
Lying, for chinese minds, is not acceptable, or
you're a potential criminal. Silence is better than lying.
In other countries, lying is "acceptable" as long as your tongue doesn't burn.
Silence is long gone and forgotten.
Chinese people know what's going on in their
own country, including SARS, reforms, internet cafes and what not. Chinese people also know what's going on in other countries. Chinese people don't need anybody to save them. Chinese people
don't have bloated illusory pride to save others before saving himself.
China has more broadband internet than any
english-speaking country. ah, yes, we read
that news, but forgot it. that's what double
standard is about. remember those cool
fights in matrix, then thought so
"revolutionary" in the filming industry, that
now everybody immitates yet can't match, well, that's made in China. The best martial arts
are still in China, no matter how hard you try
to improve on imported versions.
Chinese women ranks equal to men in their job.
When China means equal, it actually does mean equal. Some other countries are yet helding
that as a distant future goal, and in the meantime
self-satifying the big hole with morality debates.
Chinese People do a much better job at diplomacy, at going to Africa to help folks without being christian. Having their military fix bigger-than-el-nino flood disasters with a very tight budget, every year. Rather than, say, going military overseas with a more-than-microsoft budget telling others what to do and how to think; and yet not giving its own unexperienced but good troops proper bullet-proof equipments so they have to buy their own life-saving equipement with a virtual-only salary. What a demo'cracy is of people can't tell its own government not to keep doing a mistake;
where opinion polls are faked daily basis.
Before fantasizing about china internet automated filtering, may be start fantasizing about CNN/fox-news brain-dead-based filtering.
much more effective. much more pervert.
May be it's time to end this filtering with
something concrete before very too late.
only very little time is left.
China saves, yet when they do, they never speak about it, a subtle difference which is near impossible to understand in other languages.
The chinese mind don't even think they did anything great. If that concept sounds far-fetched, in any case, it is one with the chinese mind.
Enforced democracy has no value in souls.
Enforcement happens anytime something was not asked for. cold war brain masturbators
are better at minding their own business.