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October 28, 2005

Who to Vote for in the Bobs?

I, like Jamie K, did not make it to the finals at the Deutsche Welle BoBs. Someone else did though:

  Wang     Yi's Thank You Speech  The following remarks were made by     renowed Chinese independent writer Wang Yi.    

      

(New     Century Net)  [in translation] At the Best of Blogs Competition sponsored by     Deutsche Welle, more than 100 bloggers and webcasters have been nominated in     13 different categories.  My blog "Wang Yi's microphone" was     nominated in the "Best Blogger" and "Reporters Without     Borders Special Award" categories, being the only Chinese-language     nominee in those categories.  Since moving there from "Wang Yi's     home" at Bokee.com, I have published my own essays on this blog and the     blog was also a communication channel for sensitive subjects such as the Shi     Tao case and the Taishi Village rights case.  When I learned that a     friend recommended my blog for the DW BOB competition, I joked that this     guarantees that my blog will be closed down.  Indeed, even before the     list of nominees was published, the Hainan Internet Monitoring Office     ordered the blog "Wang Yi's microphone" to be shut down.     However, DW went ahead to nominate that blog in those two categories.     It will be an extreme irony and criticism of the Chinese Internet situation     if a non-existent blog shoud win some kind of prize.  You can go and     vote at :
here
    and
here
    This is not about me winning a prize; this is about a slap in their     face.  Thank you.

   

Hhhm. Yes, that would be nice wouldn’t it? So, that’s my vote dealt with. What about yours?

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