Tuesday, September 14, 2010

what do you think?

In China's Internet Cafes, Content-Blocking Is Largely Effective

 

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/In-Chinas-Internet-Cafes/26872/?sid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

 

2 comments:

  1. The first sentence says that China's information does not want to be free. The only way this makes sense is if they are implying that the information is not information alone, but a information plus a certain implication of power attached to it. This goes along with technology and politics. Its more an economic issue. People ignorantly blame it on "communism" without understanding that the only difference between what we call, communism, capitalism, fascism, free enterprise capitalism and the like, is the degree by which government aspects of society interfere and control public affairs. They are all monetary systems, and all inevitably destroy themselves. This method of self destruction or what todays economists are calling "hyper inflation" is built into their monetary systems and create the same, sort of endgame, processes where you see bailouts, which are just survival tactics for banks, creating more inflation. These aspects of society ALWAYS happen in a nation ran by a central bank that operates on a fractional reserve banking system. in our discussion of how Obama couldnt possibly "turn off" the internet, as if we are so ignorantly focused on the physical aspect of this action. However the bill does indicate that he would have the ability to shut off and control ALL free search engines on the internet.[Google, yahoo and others] For those who pay attention, is there a difference?

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  2. "as if we are so ignorantly focused on the physical aspect of this action."

    What i meant to say was:
    it seemed as though we were so [rest of sentence]

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