How can any avid news readers forget the constant praise of China provided by the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman. Video
The National Post’s Rebecca MacKinnon has just published a chilling article on one part of life over there. Well worth a read.
How can any avid news readers forget the constant praise of China provided by the NY Times’ Thomas Friedman. Video
The National Post’s Rebecca MacKinnon has just published a chilling article on one part of life over there. Well worth a read.
“So…you know…I, I,……..you know, like…”
Last turd I met who talked like that had a stud in his lip and a hairdo like a rooster.
Excellent article by Rebecca MacKinnon. FYI “offline management” means thugs come to your house and beat you down.
It’s ok though, we’ll eventually see the same system in Western countries, but for “piracy”.
To think, we enable such behavior by giving them our business. At least google has some decency.
Minitruth lives!
So why didn’t the “journalist” interviewing Fartman ask him just what his solutions were?? What?? One can dream,can’t he?
Yeah, China really sucks man, all that central control.
Here we have the freedom to let Hollywood call the shots.
Here we have the freedom to let Hollywood call the shots.
Yeah, terrible. Let’s compound the problem…
we enable such behavior by giving them our business
Then don’t buy Chinese products, the choice is yours.
Any Will Farrel character is a genius compared to Friedman.
The great China ascendancy is a house of cards. If the U.S had traded with the USSR, their slave labour could have driven down Wal-Mart prices too.
There are huge numbers of statists in N. America who would love to get the type of control over the internet that the chicoms have. Statists hate the internet and that’s why we have laws against the possession of child pron (that was the way the statists got their foot in the door), then there was the DMCA in the US (and Canada is about to follow suit) and SOPA still isn’t dead yet.
For those who are technically inclined, the restrictions the chicoms have are easy to circumvent; all that is needed is a tor connection or a web anonymizer that encrypts all pages sent to the user. I have to resort to such tactics as the IT department of Interior Health seems to be run by statists as large portions of the internet are not available on hospital computer systems (SDA still is fortunately), but when I tried to access freedomsite I was told that it was blocked as a “hate site”. YouTube was also banned until the IT morons finally had to relent given the huge quantity of medical videos present on YouTube (often papers now will include a link to YouTube videos).
Another example of statist interference in the internet was during the Bernardo/Homulka trials. The information that was banned from publication in Canada was easily available on US sites and took me about 5 minutes to find for a friend who wanted to know what the censorship was about.
One of the ways people can help out to bring information to people behind the bamboo or other information barriers is to run Tor on one machine. This creates a very safe and anonymous connection for encrypted data. Also, support the EFF which has been the most active in blocking statist interference with the internet or technology.
If the U. S. really became China for a day, it could order Friedman jailed for any reason whatsoever.
The moronic leftists always think they’ll be the ones giving the orders, not taking them. And they always assume government officials make perfect and objective decisions at all times.
But freedom is always preferable to coercion, in the U. S., in China, everywhere.
China likes to do the massive social upheaval thing every once in awhile. The peasants may be revolting, but there are 200 million of them.
The CBC likes to practice censorship as well. Type in words such as “Solyndra” or “Jack Layton brothel massage” into their search function. Solyndra will come up with nothing and the other comes up with all kinds of fluff on Layton but nothing about his naked handjob in 1996. I encourage everyone to do a search on their favourite non-CBC compliant topics just out of curiosity. It’s amazing how much news is not reported by our state broadcaster.
“The CBC likes to practice censorship as well”.
Exactly.
Censorship, and allot of Islamic propaganda these days with our wonderful Canadian hero little Kadar still missing, and the unjustly convicted Shafia family, who’s girls we failed to protect and other three children from which we stole their parents away and orphaned.
” . . . and that’s why we have laws against the possession of child pron (that was the way the statists got their foot in the door) . . . ”
Actually, I don’t think our distaste for child pron had much at all to do with feet, or with doors.
Of course, going for a more abstract metaphor, I suppose it does have something to do with someone getting their something into something else.
Not to be envious, indeed I would not know what to do with Thomas Friedman’s property.
A feisty conservative website shows an overhead picture of the Friedman mansion. Once in a while it is shown again, after a Friedmantonian edict is delivered in the NYT. It is within a large space cut into pristine woodland. I cannot see any other property nearby.
Wow! What a building. A sizeable guest house- or other, is also on the property. There is a swimming pool in front of it.
The worship of totalitarian regimes by persons who at best. would be an impoverished functionary in that regime, continues.
“The National Post’s Rebecca MacKinnon”?
Nope.
“In a new book, excerpted below, former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon explains how Beijing, and its loyal corporate minions, scrub ‘disharmonious’ material from the Chinese Web:”