What is Digg?11 Comments
- inactive, on 08/06/2008, -1/+9That pretty well sums it all up. Boycott the Fascist Olympics. Free China! Free Tibet!
- inactive, on 08/06/2008, -1/+8Well since the damn thing deleted my reply to the thread above here it is again:
To Hell with both regimes!!! - inactive, on 08/06/2008, -1/+7Reminds me of Germany hosting the Olympics under Hitler.
- Hangly, on 08/06/2008, -1/+5Pretty ballsy picking on China when our own country is in the state it's in.
As bad as China is, it's considerably freer than the US. Yes I'm serious. - inactive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3more free, not freer (or am I up too late?
And if China is more free than us, try posting your comment in China, but claiming the US is more free. Nope, you can't do it... - AWesker, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4FREE China and Tibet!!! I'll take them both. Yeah
- gmdmartyr, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2I'm with you Mark! Yeah!
- jerry2605, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1In China, u can do everything, say anything, except government in public.
- Hangly, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Sure I can. I wouldn't, but I could.
I'm posting from here, right between Beijing and Pyongyang --> http://tinyurl.com/5g8nu8
I also post as ClancyBoy over at tianya.cn sometimes. If gushing about how free the US is is against Chinese censorship laws, no one has told tianya.cn yet (which, by the way, is the largest BBS in China.) There is an enormous cadre of posters on Tianya, mostly girls, who do nothing but bloviate about how good and righteous and honorable and wonderful America and the US government are. Last month there was a 9-page thread praising the US government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Yeah.
So I would have mixed feelings about the idea of those posters having their organs harvested in a dark prison somewhere for violating Chinese crimethink laws. Maybe I would be more receptive if I could have the procedure on videotape so I could watch it over and over in slow motion at my leisure.
The Chinese government does censor things, as everyone knows, but they usually do so selectively and temporarily. For example in late April when the Chinese internets were going nuts about that incident in France with the Olympic torch and organizing protests of Carrefour all over the country. Everyone knew there was something very major being planned for May 5th. For some reason I ended up on the mailing lists.
The Beijing censors found out about it came down on it like a ton of bricks. They deleted threads and shut down sites and brought discussion of the May 5th protests to an abrupt halt. Then a few days later it was over. Everyone cooled off and the protests never materialized. Which was good for me at least, because the protests had a strong anti-foreigner undercurrent to them that was making me nervous.
I don't know how to explain why I believe China is freer (more free) than the US without going into great great length about history and philosophy and culture for pages. Suffice to say that the kinds of freedom people expect in either country are different. I've lived here for many years and I *feel* free. And that's not an abstract legal kind of freedom either. I feel free because there is no one is trying to control what I do, what I say, or how I live my life. - AWesker, on 08/06/2008, -2/+1oh and by the way Britain free china a LONG time ago,
China is not really a free country America has MUCH more freedoms then any other country in the world,
that's why we're dicks. so get off the peace pipe hippie unless you know how to use it
Check out the new & improved 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is