On 5/13/06, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
And I know about VoA-it's, quite frankly, just a propaganda tool.
I think it's more than that, but I'm not saying I agree with everything the VoA does.
If you think the U.S is trying to get Iranians to access blocked sites in the interest of "liberating" them, then you are mistaken. America most likely just wants the Iranian people to hear Mr.Bush talk about why "rogue states" like theirs should not possess "nucular technology".
"America" is not a single entity. The Voice of America tends to be at least somewhat independent from Bush and the top level government executives. The fact that they contracted with Anonymizer, Inc. only serves to enhance that independence for this particular action.
As I said, allowing Chinese users to break the law, is abbetment.
And I've agreed with this.
And it's not the kind of abettment that's justified-the condition in China is very much liveable-they are not under some Nazi-like fascist regime.
I don't believe that conditions have to be unliveable in order to justify facilitation of civil disobedience.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the FBI recently admit to tapping phones of citizens without legal consent?
I believe they did.
If that was justified then so is the Chinese governments' policy.
I don't believe it was justified, of course.
Anthony