On 5/13/06, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
If the situation in China is that bad, then why is the U.S developing dimplomatic ties with the former?
Money
Why is China given a UNSC seat?
Historical reasons.
These are aspects of China's internal affairs-not even international bodies like the U.N have the right to intervene.
I don't think anyone here is an international body.
The Chinese government probably has geo-political concerns about this matter.
Probably who cares?
Like I stated earlier, if you do help Wikipedia-users in that country circumvent this block, and they are caught they will probably be dealt with very severely.
I suspect they know that.
And I know about VoA-it's, quite frankly, just a propaganda tool. 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".
It is generaly more suptle than that.
As I said, allowing Chinese users to break the law, is abbetment.
So what? I'm not in china. I could allow french and germans to break the law simply by putting Mein Kampf online. Should I be prevented from doing that?
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.
No democracy.
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the FBI recently admit to tapping
phones of citizens >without legal consent? If that was justified then so is the Chinese
governments' policy.
Ad hominem tu quoque