[7051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bay Networks in bed with commie censors?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jan 15 19:44:19 1997
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: avg@pluris.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:36:45 -0800 (PST)
Cc: avg@pluris.com, edfang@visi.net, com-priv@lists.psi.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701160018.QAA00374@quest.pluris.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Jan 15, 97 04:18:33 pm
> >Fax machines have helped, and anything
> >that facilitates the exchange of ideas will only make
> >China bend closer to a 'democracy standard'.
>
> This network facilitates more propaganda; not the "exchange
> of ideas". A Chineze citizen would have to be a naive idiot, or
> a hard-core dissident not minding some time in a jail, to post
> anything subversive over a state network.
>
> >If you see
> >how China has changed from 10 years ago to now (some form
> >of capitalism), you will see that they cannot and will not
> >run the country as communism was once run.
>
> Capitalism != freedom of spech. Look at what's going on in Singapore.
>
Why go that far. Look at what's happening in USA.
> Please make a difference between a person eating a burger
> and a state agency running the politically censored network.
>
Hmmm... Nah, too easy.
> --vadim
>
Owen
