China defends control of web while praising freedom of speech
CLIFFORD COONAN
Irish Times
Thursday, June 10, 2010

CHINA HAS staunchly defended its right to censor online content, saying it will continue to block anything considered subversive or threatening to national unity, but that it will also guarantee freedom of speech on the internet.

The Beijing government “guarantees the citizens’ freedom of speech on the internet as well as the public’s right to know, to participate, to be heard, and to oversee in accordance with the law”, it said in a 31-page white paper just issued.

Brushing aside this apparent contradiction between pushing for censorship while encouraging freedom of speech, the government vowed to boost web participation from 29 per cent now, or 384 million users, to 45 per cent in the next five years by pushing into rural areas where the document said there was a “digital gap”.

China’s control of the web has led to a flurry of international criticism.

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Hitler and the NAZI party also made similar claims.

So did America at the time of the Declaration of Independence

. . . and so on for many other countries and people throughout history if one would care to look.

It has a special name . . .






politics

^^At least you didn't try to post a censored pic this time....

Those politicians censored facebook because they are jealous! They see all these young people with a few hundred friends while these politicians have 0 friends to add in facebook. And because it is called facebook, so having no friends is like having no face lol, so they shut it down.

Moroes wrote:Those politicians censored facebook because they are jealous! They see all these young people with a few hundred friends while these politicians have 0 friends to add in facebook. And because it is called facebook, so having no friends is like having no face lol, so they shut it down.

Ha, ha, ha! I don't think Chinese politicians have to worry about having no friends. They have rich friends - so many, that many politicians have become rich themselves.

After all, friends share with friends, right?

rickettyrabbit wrote:

Moroes wrote:Those politicians censored facebook because they are jealous! They see all these young people with a few hundred friends while these politicians have 0 friends to add in facebook. And because it is called facebook, so having no friends is like having no face lol, so they shut it down.

Ha, ha, ha! I don't think Chinese politicians have to worry about having no friends. They have rich friends - so many, that many politicians have become rich themselves.

After all, friends share with friends, right?

^Dudes, you talking about same people..

2010-06-15 19:36:09 http://news.163.com/10/0615/19/698AMKC40001124J.html

Google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... =&ie=UTF-8

"Guangdong Zhongshan Mayor Li Qihong suspected serious economic discipline problems checked. Media, this case involved more than 10 people, 5 from the Red Nicholls family, including wife red Nicholls, Lee, a brother, sister-sister. Red Nicholls family, there are many people engaged in real estate and commandeered the party, which in Zhongshan City, is an open secret, insiders have called the family assets, a conservative estimate of $2.0 billion ."