China’s Millennials

Post by wayoutthere » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 1:39 PM UTC

volkl48 wrote: post #55

yourbandsucks wrote: post #45

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Free press checkpoint RE: Iraq. They shut the internet off there last week to try and suppress ongoing protests/unrest. It's been reported a little, but hardly wall to wall like the Hong Kong thing. Why? Nobody sent out orders to the Anglo press about what to report, yet we still have this very marked phenomenon where the reporting takes 'the side' of Anglo world power. It's worth thinking about for anyone who salute…

Is this a serious question? Because Iraq is a chaotic mess where we are generally impressed if it isn't literally exploding. It's not that shutting the internet off is acceptable, it's that compared to everything else that happens/has happened in Iraq, that's insignificant. We hold (supposedly) functional, developed places to a higher standard in what we expect from them, and it takes smaller acts of injustice or vio…

Post by yourbandsucks » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

volkl48 wrote: post #55

yourbandsucks wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free press checkpoint RE: Iraq. They shut the internet off there last week to try and suppress ongoing protests/unrest. It's been reported a little, but hardly wall to wall like the Hong Kong thing. Why? Nobody sent out orders to the Anglo press about what to report, yet we still have this very marked phenomenon where the reporting takes 'the side' of Anglo world power. It's worth thinking about for anyone who salute…

Is this a serious question? Because Iraq is a chaotic mess where we are generally impressed if it isn't literally exploding. It's not that shutting the internet off is acceptable, it's that compared to everything else that happens/has happened in Iraq, that's insignificant. We hold (supposedly) functional, developed places to a higher standard in what we expect from them, and it takes smaller acts of injustice or vio…

Post by big_chungus » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 1:49 PM UTC

hoseja wrote: post #52

lonelappde wrote: post #31

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"Millennial" is a dress-up word for "kids today". The connotation is much clearer under that substitution.

There's a browser extension that replaces every occurrence of the word 'millennial' with 'pesky whipper-snapper'.

Post by theseadroid » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #22

> They were offered free software that would enable them to dodge the Great Firewall of China – which blocks almost all major Western news sites and social media outlets – and browse the internet without restrictions. There was some surprise when it turned out that even elite students in China had little interest in finding out what Westerners were thinking. Only 53 per cent of the participants had activated the soft…

Post by baybal2 » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:10 PM UTC

Jommi wrote: post #66

elliekelly wrote: post #22

> They were offered free software that would enable them to dodge the Great Firewall of China – which blocks almost all major Western news sites and social media outlets – and browse the internet without restrictions. There was some surprise when it turned out that even elite students in China had little interest in finding out what Westerners were thinking. Only 53 per cent of the participants had activated the soft…

This is an even bigger joke if you know that residential areas of the 2 biggest Unis in Beijing have built-in VPNs allowing you to access google anyays :)