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Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Post by nikdaheratik »

1024core wrote: post #184
empath75 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you're better off.

Writing her off completely is also wrong. While I may not agree with much of what she said, I do agree with that paragraph. Case in point: the Civil Asset Forfeiture "law"s.

Her writing is very problematic and her ideas seem to fall down a bit when trying to use them outside of her authorial universe.

To me, it's like a literary Rube Goldberg device where it looks cool on the page, but seems impractical and kind of unhelpful as a way to live your life.

Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Post by ferentchak »

sharetea wrote: post #175
tootie wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like that you said you were stealing from another thread and then quoted a book. A book that isn't evidence of your assertion.

yeah I thought about rebuking his point, but someone who quotes fiction texts not from 'another thread', but from a book written in 1957 that was talking more about socialism and fascism in Hitler's Germany and Russia, and proceeds to copy and paste an entire paragraph in order to support his point about US in 2016 Well, that's some sort of superpower right there.

Reading is a superpower! The book is neither about Hitler nor fascism.

I would say it is a book about the magically industrialists that she wishes existed in her youth when her family was disposed by the Russian communists. They have ray guns and invisibility machines and everything, oh and trains don't forget trains.

Here is the thread I copied the quote from, but I have read the book. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11088704

Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Post by ferentchak »

1024core wrote: post #184
empath75 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you're better off.

Writing her off completely is also wrong. While I may not agree with much of what she said, I do agree with that paragraph. Case in point: the Civil Asset Forfeiture "law"s.

It's also important and useful to know why you don't agree with her. So many people have never read her writing but have very strong opinions about her but only based upon some blog they read or what their friend told them.

It always reminds me of fundamental Christians patting each other on the back about dinosaurs not being real and knowing better than to have to read the literature on it.

Rand has some great points, one thing that bothers me is when in Atlas Shrugged and her philosophy is that she always attributes everything to a single amazing person. It's like a 50's version of the Steve Jobs biographies.

Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Post by ionised »

luwh wrote: post #261
aembleton wrote: post #242

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I'm in the UK. Can you give me a URL that is blocked by the national firewall?

All the pirate sites like kickass are blocked in UK

Not all of them, and simply using an HTTPS connection is enough to get around much of the blocking.

Re: Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China

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Post by yuanotes »

You guys really don't know how things work in China.

As a Chinese I don't give a damn about these new ridiculous rules since we always have ways to bypass them. And theses things changes very fast in this country.

We have laws, and the way them work are different than that in western countries.

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