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June 24, 2005
Call My Lawyer!
Riiight. So China blocks all access to Typepad based blogs from inside the country. Well, we all knew they were Commie Fascist Pinkoes quite happy to slaughter their own people and never all that keen on free speech either.
But.
This blog is a commercial operation (in however small a manner, yes, it is commercial...money comes in in dribs and drabs) and, until this decision some of that value was created by readers (maybe it was only one coming back a lot but that doesn’t change the point) in China:
| China | 468 | 0.19% |
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I agree that 0.19% of not very much is, err, not very much. Yet this is the action of a foreign government damaging the economic interests of a Briton. We used to have a Prime Minister who knew what to do in such cases....that was long ago and the past is a foreign country of course, but wouldn’t it be nice if we still had the odd politician with a touch of spine, one who was aware of and protected, even thought it was his duty to protect, the rights of the citizens?
In short, when are those damn gunboats going to turn up at the mouth of the Yangtze?
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Your point regarding the blocking of a commercial venture is taken, Tim, but I believe that the censoring of blogs by the Chinese is worse than that, it is a further demonstration that the Chinese don't care what anyone says, as long as they get their own blood-soaked way!
As I posted on my own little blog:-
We exist on this planet for a comparatively short period of time, and the Chinese, by shutting down the very urge to talk and learn, may well have crushed underfoot a modern Mozart, or a youthful Einstein before the full flowering of their genius might have been fulfilled. We are human, and in that very term we state that there are no boundaries or limits for our minds, for it is a part of the human condition that we explore, whether it is a cave, a planet, or a set of algebraic formulae; because we want to know; and that is the truly tragic result of the censorship of the bloggers in China, in that someone has been denied the right to stretch his or her imagination so as to create something beautiful!
Posted by: Mike Cunningham | Jun 24, 2005 11:25:31 AM
Speaking of the Crimean war (albeit tangentially) did you know that Berwick upon Tweed was in the declaration but not the peace treaty? The town was at war with Russia until 1966.
Posted by: Katie | Jun 24, 2005 11:27:55 AM
Katie,
Speaking mathematically, that is one hell of a tangent!
Posted by: Mike Cunningham | Jun 24, 2005 1:57:17 PM
Palmerston.
Posted by: Katie | Jun 24, 2005 2:13:41 PM
Will you just give me enough warning of your attack so I can flee before the Chinese ICBMs arrive?
Posted by: Alex | Jun 24, 2005 3:31:01 PM
