[pcottraux]

Does Al Gore know about this?

[in hoc signo vinces]

WTF?

What a piece of creative writing.

[in hoc signo vinces]

I will concede that it seems China does control GOOGLE.

[billybudd]

Or: "How BusinessWeek Pulls Headlines Out Of Its A$$"

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[dirtydanusa]

I was chatting with a friend in Shanghai, I guess I mentioned a sore subject because I was cut off and can no longer chat with him. When he came home for Christmas, he asked me what happened to me!!! He has had a few of his friends here in the states cutoff from chatting with him. He said they even monitor his cell phone and his land line phones.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

My comment on their web site:

1) Profit is not worth human death, imprisonment or torture. People in companies like Yahoo are obligated to resist. 2) Using cellphone and the internet, the Chinese can circumvent controls within their borders.

Their commentator Einhorn seems to be amoral. People in companies like Yahoo and Google must think what the consequences of turning over people's names will be. This is exactly like the companies that cooperated with Nazi Germany. You must resist early and encourage it to spread. Make the Chinese duplicate the technology behind Yahoo and Google. don't give it to them.

I think China is one of the most inherently unstable societies in the world, for three reasons: 1) They have opened their society to commerce and information. This is like th USSR after Glasnost. People will get the idea of freedom and the technology for resistance. 2) There is a tremendous demographic imbalance between men and women due to their one child policy. The men will go outside the country to find women. The best, most ambitious and intelligent will go. They will come back changed or they will work outside the country for change. 3) There is a powerful underground Church movement in China. They cannot stamp it out. Christianity cannot be stamped out; witness the USSR; after 70 years of atheism, the Church continued. Witness the Roman Empire; at its most powerful, and at Christianity's weakness point, they could not stomp it out--and they tried to, very hard. China will become a Christian majority nation in time. The government will not survive.

[presidio9]

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

How China Controls the Internet

Through spam. 90% of the spam I receive apparently originates from China, according to the Spamcop method.