[107242] in Cypherpunks
Re: maginot line, er, Great Firewall, political spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vogt)
Thu Jan 7 07:03:04 1999
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 12:43:44 +0100
From: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tom Vogt <tv@wlwonline.de>
Bloody Gorefest wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, the commie government stranglehold
> over the public in China is almost total.
>
> Remember Tianannmen? Hundreds of students massacred
> simply because they dared to protest against the
> Chinese government's suppression of democracy and
> human rights. And we have the audacity to talk about
> Iraq?
>
> Remember the Chinese oppression of Christian
> worship in China till today? Try conducting a
> prayer service or mass in China and you could
> be in prison within the hour.
even though I agree with your main points, I'd also not like to see
china going the way that russia is going. with it's different culture
and past, I'd be taking bets that they'd end up with something even
worse.
oh, and let's not forget that they are among the rare countries with a
(badly needed) two-digit growth rate for years now.
I'm just a bit more careful convicting people that I only know of
through the unreliable press media.
