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As we know, ISPs in the U.S. are generally not held accountable for individual bloggers’ content. In China, they are.
An article posted today reports the strong movement by the Communist regime “encouraging” bloggers to use their real names and register their identities. Considering the government initially proposed a complete ban on anonymous blogging, this represents… quite an extraordinary show of benevolence from the Chinese.
Even though Chinese bloggers may still post anonymously, their internet service providers are responsible for the contents of the blogs and will be punished for any materials “deemed pornographic or a threat to Communist rule.” Since no ISP wants to get in trouble with the Communists and the regulation/censorship is private with no form of due process, these ISPs will delete anything and everything that holds any chance of inciting the government’s wrath. These ISPs erring on the safe side means free speech and dissent is stifled to death. Quite literally.
China can take any measures it wants to boost its economy or fortify its military, but if its government continues to turn a blind eye on civil liberties, China will never surpass America or any other developed nation as a world power. China better wise up soon because we here at 8A are getting a little sick of talking about all the atrocities going on over there.
On that note, I’ve been told 8Asians.com is banned in China. If you ask me, that means we’re doing something right.
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Blasphemy! Blasphemy! :p
You want to hail Tila for being loud. It's not hard to be a loud rabble rouser who utilizes theatrics. It's easy. Just take the opposite opinion of what is conventionally accepted (and/or expected) and take up its defense, and voila! I forget who I'm talking about.. tila or akryp... kidding!
Tila is just loud, kinda like one of those loud kids who crave attention, except she's making good money and has great... marketing features.
Seriously though, I don't think there's really anything worth hailing about what she's doing. She's invented no new recipe nor has she done anything original. She selling sexual promiscuity...as does every pornstar out there...
Blasphemy! Blasphemy! :p
You want to hail Tila for being loud. It's not hard to be a loud rabble rouser who utilizes theatrics. It's easy. Just take the opposite opinion of what is conventionally accepted (and/or expected) and take up its defense, and voila! I forget who I'm talking about.. tila or akryp... kidding!
Tila is just loud, kinda like one of those loud kids who crave attention, except she's making good money and has great... marketing features.
Seriously though, I don't think there's really anything worth hailing about what she's doing. She's invented no new recipe nor has she done anything original. She selling sexual promiscuity...as does every pornstar out there...
Few people will dispute the fact that the degree of access abusers have, to material demeaning to children, is worrying.
The lack of access to any disenting voice against a government in their own soil, is just as bad, if not worse.
If Akrypti resided in China, I'm sure she would not be able to respond to your posts. Do they have internet access in Chinese prisons?
If she was in Russia, criticising Putin, she would have been sent to a mental asylum. For her own safety, of course.
Few people will dispute the fact that the degree of access abusers have, to material demeaning to children, is worrying.
The lack of access to any disenting voice against a government in their own soil, is just as bad, if not worse.
If Akrypti resided in China, I'm sure she would not be able to respond to your posts. Do they have internet access in Chinese prisons?
If she was in Russia, criticising Putin, she would have been sent to a mental asylum. For her own safety, of course.
Hey Ratrace,
You can't use an untenable theory to support a conclusory argument. Try again.
Hey Bruce,
I'm not bashing China. I'm critiquing its laws. Simply because you state a dissenting opinion doesn't mean you're "bashing." Your license-freedom distinction here, without more, isn't a constructive response to this post. If you still want to make your point, you'll have to clarify.
It's so easy to hate on Tila Tequila so by taking that route, you two boys reveal your lack of effective application of education. She is a woman who took something negative in her life and turned it into something positive for herself. Her actions are a product of her own free choice and she does not let other people's ideologies affect those choices. She speaks her and whether I agree with her presentation or her expressions won't affect my respect of her for speaking her mind. I'm really sorry you folks can't see past your own prejudices to just accept her.
On that note, I'll write on whatever topic I damn well please and the funny part is there will still be people who love me for it and I will still be just as arrogant, self-righteous, narcississtic, and elitist as ever. I'm unstoppable. All you can do to avoid my influence is to avert your eyes. ::smiling with saccharine pleasure at you two boys::
Hey Ratrace,
You can't use an untenable theory to support a conclusory argument. Try again.
Hey Bruce,
I'm not bashing China. I'm critiquing its laws. Simply because you state a dissenting opinion doesn't mean you're "bashing." Your license-freedom distinction here, without more, isn't a constructive response to this post. If you still want to make your point, you'll have to clarify.
It's so easy to hate on Tila Tequila so by taking that route, you two boys reveal your lack of effective application of education. She is a woman who took something negative in her life and turned it into something positive for herself. Her actions are a product of her own free choice and she does not let other people's ideologies affect those choices. She speaks her and whether I agree with her presentation or her expressions won't affect my respect of her for speaking her mind. I'm really sorry you folks can't see past your own prejudices to just accept her.
On that note, I'll write on whatever topic I damn well please and the funny part is there will still be people who love me for it and I will still be just as arrogant, self-righteous, narcississtic, and elitist as ever. I'm unstoppable. All you can do to avoid my influence is to avert your eyes. ::smiling with saccharine pleasure at you two boys::
Good one, ratrace. She should stick to critiquing Tila Tequila...oops, Ms. Nguyen, sorry.
Yes, more pedophiles and other cyber-stalkers on the US internet are more preferable than China's system of monitoring the internet. Sure there are plusses and minusses, but that's the way it is. More racist rhetoric and hate rhetoric too in the US. China wants stability. Freedom to do something is not the same as the license to do something. A concept that is not recognized in the US.
China-bashing doesn't help. Sugar-coating a porn star doesn't help either.
Good one, ratrace. She should stick to critiquing Tila Tequila...oops, Ms. Nguyen, sorry.
Yes, more pedophiles and other cyber-stalkers on the US internet are more preferable than China's system of monitoring the internet. Sure there are plusses and minusses, but that's the way it is. More racist rhetoric and hate rhetoric too in the US. China wants stability. Freedom to do something is not the same as the license to do something. A concept that is not recognized in the US.
China-bashing doesn't help. Sugar-coating a porn star doesn't help either.
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China will never surpass America or any other developed nation as a world power.
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Don't know much about geo-politics, do you? You should stick to critiquing tila Tequila videos.
quote:
China will never surpass America or any other developed nation as a world power.
end quote
Don't know much about geo-politics, do you? You should stick to critiquing tila Tequila videos.
If you're interested in the censorship that Google supports in China, look at the results from these two identical image searches on Tiananmen Square:
US Google: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tianan...
CN Google: http://images.google.cn/images?&hl=zh-CN&i...
If you're interested in the censorship that Google supports in China, look at the results from these two identical image searches on Tiananmen Square:
US Google: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=tianan...
CN Google: http://images.google.cn/images?&hl=zh-CN&i...
One reason I avoid using Google (Gulag)
Still have Yahoo, but not using the search engine.
I used google to look up my nickname and it was scary the amount of information it holds about my posts.
Will have to search for a new nickname at some point.
One reason I avoid using Google (Gulag)
Still have Yahoo, but not using the search engine.
I used google to look up my nickname and it was scary the amount of information it holds about my posts.
Will have to search for a new nickname at some point.
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