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Chinese Police State Exposition

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FreedomIsYellow Posted: Fri, Jun 26 2009 3:19 AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5356457/Segways-dune-buggies-and-a-gun-that-can-shoot-around-corners-at-an-anti-terrorism-trade-show.html

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ama gi replied on Fri, Jun 26 2009 3:42 PM

In other news, China has mandated that all computers sold after July 1 come with censorship software ready-installed.  Says Qin Gang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, “It is every government’s responsibility to protect their teenagers from porn and vulgar information on the Internet.”  (emphasis added)

So, in other words, teenagers everywhere belong to the government!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/asia/26china.html?ref=technology

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ama gi replied on Fri, Jun 26 2009 3:46 PM

Fortunately, resistance is already appearing.  An activist is calling for a boycott of the Internet starting July 1, and a group called Anonymous Netizens is threatening to sabotage the censorship effort.

"We are the Anonymous Netizens. We have seen your moves on the Internet. You have deprived your netizens of the freedom of speech. You have come to see technology as your mortal enemy," read a translation of the Declaration of the Anonymous Netizens published on a popular English-language blog, The Shanghaiist.

"For the freedom of the Internet, for the advancement of Internetization, and for our rights, we are going to acquaint your censorship machine with systematic sabotage and show you just how weak the claws of your censorship really are," the declaration continued.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529090,00.html

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Excellent to hear they are putting up some resistance to that.

With reference to my original post, I wonder how many of these items will be turning up at a Police State near you or I...

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geo8rge replied on Sat, Jun 27 2009 9:17 PM

For some reason a dune buggy with a gatling gun on it seems so 21st century Chinese to me.

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