Who decided that? Did you just make it up?
--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
The criteria are control of the press, repression of political speech, imprisonment of those who atempt to organize an opposing political party or a union, etc.
Fred
From: Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:31:58 -0400 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Classification of China?
At 05:16 PM 4/25/03 -0600, Fred Bauder wrote:
I intend to speak truth. China (and the Catholic
church, for another
example) are authoritarian. \ It is not merely a
matter of the opinion of
vague critics. There are objective criteria which
if met constitute an
authoritarian government.
This concerns me, not because I disagree, but
because I don't know
what objective criteria Fred is using, and because
almost anyone who
promotes a point of view sincerely believes that
he or she is speaking
truth.
The determination to speak truth, while admirable,
is not the same as
NPOV, which is our policy.
Fred
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