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The secret world of Chinese tweets
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Punjabbi Munda
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My countries literacy rate is not under discussion my friend and so is not the case of famous "Chinese Massage Parlours"and their business
So lets stick to the topic, which is china and freedom
Mate,you ll get used to Chinese trolls and off topic posters.Just spend more time here,you ll start taking them as a joke
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LOL...comparing level of freedom to the citizens btw India and china is like comparing apples and oranges.....
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Chinese wanna show their fake internet pride and satisfaction.
Though they know,what the ground realities are.
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You're maybe one of the fewer rational Indians left, but the rest left. Now you've also transitioned to irrationality.
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Chinese wanna show their fake internet pride and satisfaction.
Though they know,what the ground realities are.
Its a known fact that CCP pays e-warriors and bloggers to maintain good image of china and hide embarrassing facts.
Not sure if they get pensions or not. Maybe our Chinese friends here will share more info on that.
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Yeah, we have different perspective about freedom, so applying Indian way of freedom to China, do you think this is correct?
At least China never pursues India to follow the Communist doctrine, right?
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Maybe 2 million Indians can sign up, at least then they won't starve to death.
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What if some day 50,000 of them at shot point blank and others rolled over armed tanks in Tianenmen sqaure if they ask for some basic human right and dignity??
Better they die here in Starvation.
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What if some day 50,000 of them at shot point blank in Tianenmen sqaure if they ask for some basic human right and dignity??
Better they die here in Starvation.
Are you talking something that happened in another Universe?
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Maybe CCP didnt tell you what happened in the 90's. Thats why you dont know.
"Freedom"!! Thats what you like to call it.
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'Jasmine Revolution' Coverage Censored in China
BEIJING – China has censored most media coverage of the Arab world’s popular revolt of the last few weeks and on Monday bleeped out a CNN segment hinting at a possible link between Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” and a brief gathering in Beijing that was broken up by police over the weekend.
As authoritarian governments fell in Tunis and in Cairo in Egypt -- and others began to shake in the face of widespread protests in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Algeria – China’s one-party government in Beijing has tightened its longstanding dictate that nationwide media be centrally controlled.
While censorship of Chinese language TV is not new, the extent to which Beijing appeared fearful that news of change in North Africa and the Middle East might prompt a Chinese movement reached even cable networks broadcasting only in English and only inside China’s luxury hotels.
Not long after 8:30 am. Monday local time, the CNN feed reaching the gym of a downtown five-star hotel went black as commentator Gordon Chang started to talk about a call on Sunday on Chinese social networking websites for people to gather at 13 places nationwide.
Indeed, a shopping in a popular Beijing street less than a kilometer from the seat of the government in Tiananmen Square, was briefly confused by hundreds of people gathered in front of McDonald’s only to find themselves outnumbered by foreign journalists and police tipped to their assembly by Chinese micro-blog Weibo.
“Beijing’s leaders were very concerned after calls for a Jasmine revolution…” Chang started to tell CNN from New York, but then the gym’s TV screen went black.
CNN switched back on 30 seconds later and a Hong Kong-based anchor bid Chang thanks and farewell, leaving at least one jogger in the U.S. hotel joint venture with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wondering what had been said.
The gathering CNN was referencing in the Beijing street turned out to be a non-event and wrapped up non-violently after about an hour. While waiting for something to happen there, American newspaper chain McClatchy’s Beijing correspondent Tom Lasseter, tweeted: "Watching large crowd of cameras following around the police, young woman in Dior sunglasses asked me if there was a celebrity or something.”
Helping to keep many Chinese in the dark about recent global events were the latest in a string of common directives issued by the central government to editors nationwide. One, on Jan. 28, from the State Council Information Office and the Ministry of Public Security told all media: “For the disturbances in Egypt, media across the nation must use copy circulated from Xinhua,” the state-run news agency.
“Websites are to strengthen [monitoring] of posts, forums, blogs, and particularly posts on microblogs. Our bureaus will forcibly shut down websites that are lax in monitoring,” the directive said, according to a copy obtained by the Berkeley-based activist web site China
BEIJING – China has censored most media coverage of the Arab world’s popular revolt of the last few weeks and on Monday bleeped out a CNN segment hinting at a possible link between Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” and a brief gathering in Beijing that was broken up by police over the weekend.
As authoritarian governments fell in Tunis and in Cairo in Egypt -- and others began to shake in the face of widespread protests in Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Algeria – China’s one-party government in Beijing has tightened its longstanding dictate that nationwide media be centrally controlled.
While censorship of Chinese language TV is not new, the extent to which Beijing appeared fearful that news of change in North Africa and the Middle East might prompt a Chinese movement reached even cable networks broadcasting only in English and only inside China’s luxury hotels.
Not long after 8:30 am. Monday local time, the CNN feed reaching the gym of a downtown five-star hotel went black as commentator Gordon Chang started to talk about a call on Sunday on Chinese social networking websites for people to gather at 13 places nationwide.
Indeed, a shopping in a popular Beijing street less than a kilometer from the seat of the government in Tiananmen Square, was briefly confused by hundreds of people gathered in front of McDonald’s only to find themselves outnumbered by foreign journalists and police tipped to their assembly by Chinese micro-blog Weibo.
“Beijing’s leaders were very concerned after calls for a Jasmine revolution…” Chang started to tell CNN from New York, but then the gym’s TV screen went black.
CNN switched back on 30 seconds later and a Hong Kong-based anchor bid Chang thanks and farewell, leaving at least one jogger in the U.S. hotel joint venture with China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs wondering what had been said.
The gathering CNN was referencing in the Beijing street turned out to be a non-event and wrapped up non-violently after about an hour. While waiting for something to happen there, American newspaper chain McClatchy’s Beijing correspondent Tom Lasseter, tweeted: "Watching large crowd of cameras following around the police, young woman in Dior sunglasses asked me if there was a celebrity or something.”
Helping to keep many Chinese in the dark about recent global events were the latest in a string of common directives issued by the central government to editors nationwide. One, on Jan. 28, from the State Council Information Office and the Ministry of Public Security told all media: “For the disturbances in Egypt, media across the nation must use copy circulated from Xinhua,” the state-run news agency.
“Websites are to strengthen [monitoring] of posts, forums, blogs, and particularly posts on microblogs. Our bureaus will forcibly shut down websites that are lax in monitoring,” the directive said, according to a copy obtained by the Berkeley-based activist web site China
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Call for Protests Unnerves Beijing .
Call for Protests Unnerves Beijing - WSJ.com
BEIJING—Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a "Jasmine Revolution" in China by protesting in 13 cities—just a day after President Hu Jintao called for tighter Internet controls to help prevent social unrest.
Only a handful of people appeared to have responded to the call to protest in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other cities at 2 p.m. Sunday, a call first posted on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com and circulated mainly on Twitter, which is blocked in China.
But Chinese authorities seemed to take it seriously, deploying extra police to the planned protest sites, deleting almost all online discussion of the appeal, blocking searches for the word "Jasmine" on Twitter-like microblogs and other sites and temporarily disabling mass text-messaging services.
Ahead of the planned protests, more than 100 activists across China were taken away by police, confined to their homes or went missing, according to the Hong Kong-based group Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
The online protest appeal is likely to compound the apparent concern among Communist Party leaders that the recent uprisings against authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa could inspire similar unrest in China. The lackluster popular response, however, demonstrates how much harder it would be to organize a sustained protest movement in a country with a well-funded and organized police force, and with the world's most sophisticated Internet censorship system.
At one of the designated protest sites—a McDonald's outlet in Beijing's central Wangfujing shopping district—a crowd of several hundred people gathered, along with hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes police, shortly before 2 p.m.
The crowd, however, consisted almost entirely of foreign journalists and curious shoppers—many of whom thought there was a celebrity in the area—along with a handful of young people who said they had heard about the protest appeal and came to watch.
The only sign of protest came from a young Chinese man who was detained by police after laying some jasmine flowers outside the McDonald's and trying to take a photograph of them on his mobile phone, witnesses said. At least two other people were detained after altercations with police, but it wasn't clear whether they were protesting, the witnesses said.
Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to China—who has been critical of the country's Internet controls—was also in the crowd but quickly left after he was identified by a Chinese crowd member with whom he was chatting.
In Shanghai, meanwhile, police led away three people outside a Starbucks outlet near the planned protest spot after they shouted complaints about the government and high food prices, according to the Associated Press. There were no reports of demonstrations in other cities where people were urged to protest, which included Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu
The protest appeal had urged people to "take responsibility for the future" and to shout a slogan that encapsulated some of the most pressing social issues in China: "We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness!"
It came at a sensitive time, as China prepares for the March 5 start of the annual meeting of its parliament, the National People's Congress. China's leaders are also anxious to ensure social stability in the run-up to a once-in-a-decade party leadership change next year, when Mr. Hu and six other top leaders are due to retire.
On Saturday, Mr. Hu urged national and provincial leaders to "solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society." Some Chinese and Western analysts have argued that China faces many of the same social problems that have inspired the protests in the Middle East and North Africa, especially rising housing and food prices.
Others, however, say that China is unlikely to suffer similar unrest because living standards are generally rising faster, and social controls are much stronger, especially online. Although an increasing number of people are becoming aware of censorship and ways to circumvent it, Chinese authorities have also been largely successful in controlling the spread of information. Locally operated websites must delete any content the government deems "harmful," and companies that store user information in China must comply if the government requests access to that information.
This has often enabled authorities to quickly identify and stop organized political action before it reaches too many people, all while staying under the radar of most ordinary citizens, who aren't constantly searching for political content. It also makes heavy-handed crackdowns affecting large numbers of Internet users mostly unnecessary.
China blocks websites like Facebook and Twitter, which were used by activists in Egypt, and keeps out other undesirable foreign content, from criticism of China's leaders to information about sensitive historical events, using Web-filtering technology.
President Hu called for even stronger Internet restrictions in his speech on Saturday at the Central Party School in Beijing, which trains rising leaders.
At present, our country has an important strategic window for development, but is also in a period of magnified social conflicts," he said. Among the steps Beijing had to take, Mr. Hu said, was "further strengthening and improving management of the Internet, improving the standard of management of virtual society, and establishing mechanisms to guide online public opinion."
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Call for Protests Unnerves Beijing - WSJ.com
BEIJING—Chinese authorities detained dozens of political activists after an anonymous online call for people to start a "Jasmine Revolution" in China by protesting in 13 cities—just a day after President Hu Jintao called for tighter Internet controls to help prevent social unrest.
Only a handful of people appeared to have responded to the call to protest in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other cities at 2 p.m. Sunday, a call first posted on the U.S.-based Chinese-language news website Boxun.com and circulated mainly on Twitter, which is blocked in China.
But Chinese authorities seemed to take it seriously, deploying extra police to the planned protest sites, deleting almost all online discussion of the appeal, blocking searches for the word "Jasmine" on Twitter-like microblogs and other sites and temporarily disabling mass text-messaging services.
Ahead of the planned protests, more than 100 activists across China were taken away by police, confined to their homes or went missing, according to the Hong Kong-based group Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
The online protest appeal is likely to compound the apparent concern among Communist Party leaders that the recent uprisings against authoritarian governments in the Middle East and North Africa could inspire similar unrest in China. The lackluster popular response, however, demonstrates how much harder it would be to organize a sustained protest movement in a country with a well-funded and organized police force, and with the world's most sophisticated Internet censorship system.
At one of the designated protest sites—a McDonald's outlet in Beijing's central Wangfujing shopping district—a crowd of several hundred people gathered, along with hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes police, shortly before 2 p.m.
The crowd, however, consisted almost entirely of foreign journalists and curious shoppers—many of whom thought there was a celebrity in the area—along with a handful of young people who said they had heard about the protest appeal and came to watch.
The only sign of protest came from a young Chinese man who was detained by police after laying some jasmine flowers outside the McDonald's and trying to take a photograph of them on his mobile phone, witnesses said. At least two other people were detained after altercations with police, but it wasn't clear whether they were protesting, the witnesses said.
Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to China—who has been critical of the country's Internet controls—was also in the crowd but quickly left after he was identified by a Chinese crowd member with whom he was chatting.
In Shanghai, meanwhile, police led away three people outside a Starbucks outlet near the planned protest spot after they shouted complaints about the government and high food prices, according to the Associated Press. There were no reports of demonstrations in other cities where people were urged to protest, which included Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chengdu
The protest appeal had urged people to "take responsibility for the future" and to shout a slogan that encapsulated some of the most pressing social issues in China: "We want food, we want work, we want housing, we want fairness!"
It came at a sensitive time, as China prepares for the March 5 start of the annual meeting of its parliament, the National People's Congress. China's leaders are also anxious to ensure social stability in the run-up to a once-in-a-decade party leadership change next year, when Mr. Hu and six other top leaders are due to retire.
On Saturday, Mr. Hu urged national and provincial leaders to "solve prominent problems which might harm the harmony and stability of the society." Some Chinese and Western analysts have argued that China faces many of the same social problems that have inspired the protests in the Middle East and North Africa, especially rising housing and food prices.
Others, however, say that China is unlikely to suffer similar unrest because living standards are generally rising faster, and social controls are much stronger, especially online. Although an increasing number of people are becoming aware of censorship and ways to circumvent it, Chinese authorities have also been largely successful in controlling the spread of information. Locally operated websites must delete any content the government deems "harmful," and companies that store user information in China must comply if the government requests access to that information.
This has often enabled authorities to quickly identify and stop organized political action before it reaches too many people, all while staying under the radar of most ordinary citizens, who aren't constantly searching for political content. It also makes heavy-handed crackdowns affecting large numbers of Internet users mostly unnecessary.
China blocks websites like Facebook and Twitter, which were used by activists in Egypt, and keeps out other undesirable foreign content, from criticism of China's leaders to information about sensitive historical events, using Web-filtering technology.
President Hu called for even stronger Internet restrictions in his speech on Saturday at the Central Party School in Beijing, which trains rising leaders.
At present, our country has an important strategic window for development, but is also in a period of magnified social conflicts," he said. Among the steps Beijing had to take, Mr. Hu said, was "further strengthening and improving management of the Internet, improving the standard of management of virtual society, and establishing mechanisms to guide online public opinion."
REPORTED : 21ST FEBRUARY 2011
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have we not debunked this myth enough?
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We are facing an army of trolls now.
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