I don't even know why they call it internet. They better start calling it super-huge-intranet or something...
The "countrinet"
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, the United States discredited itself in the minds of many young Chinese over here when Bush Jnr took the US, UK, and Australia into Iraq after "creating" evidence of WMD's.
I'm not sure I follow. What do the troubles of the U.S. have to do with the price of tea(or freedom) in China?
I don't see the point either. Besides, there are lots of Chinese immigrants in countries other than US.
It's curious how Bush-bashing gets automatic upvotes even when it's completely irrelevant (in this point HN isn't much different from reddit).
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#103Chinese gov is ridiculous. My girlfriend made a one word posting on the Chinese clone of facebook that read "freedom". The post disappeared in minutes and she received a private message warning her that her account may be deleted if she continues making such posts. One upside is that Chinese people seem to be a little more tech savvy. ie. many of them are forced to learn about proxy servers so they can go around the…
I guess Chinese Newspeak doesn't have "freedom" in it. And I thought 1984 was bad :(
Let's not go crazy here. China is bad. But just like comparing people you disagree with to Hitler is silly, so is saying a government is worse than the ones in 1984. The only government on Earth that even comes close is North Korea's. That is not to excuse any of the awful, repressive regimes out there, just to say that no, they are not worse than a fictional regime specifically created to be the scariest thing Orwell could imagine.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
once upon a time, they did: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/
For me, it's probably the iconic picture of 20th century political action.
And here's a picture of 21st century political action:
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#105I will throw my 2-cents in. My wife posted the name CCP on the Chinese version of Twitter and received an immediate message. Scared her enough to quit for good. For those who can read mandarin: http://twitpic.com/19h81p We need to push our representatives to call foul on WTO violations. These are unfair business practices as web-based companies need to be protected too. It's all about "block and copy" so the west is…
And China is creating inefficient monopolies, trapping capital and resources within their walled garden, and limiting exposure to outside innovation.
The Chinese government is hurting China a lot more than it's hurting the west.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, the United States discredited itself in the minds of many young Chinese over here when Bush Jnr took the US, UK, and Australia into Iraq after "creating" evidence of WMD's.
I'm not sure I follow. What do the troubles of the U.S. have to do with the price of tea(or freedom) in China?
I'm writing from inside China.
The US has the moral high ground with regards not blocking Dropbox, Google Groups, Blogspot, etc wholesale within the country, but China has the moral high ground with regards not invading foreign countries simply because "when you can you should". As thiopental wrote: "It's futile to expect others to adhere to your moral standards (here: truthfulness) when they think you should clean up your own act first."
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#107we're bummed about this. it's probably a fruitless exercise, but does anyone have any insight into how to get unblocked?
It must be that there are users using Dropbox to transfer data that is considered illegal in China. I think the best way is to setup an office and servers in China and negotiate with the government for compliance. As a user I hope you can do this, as a Chinese citizen I also know there is a reason for censorship.
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#108Are the Chinese gov officials nuts?