China Censors Ratchet Up Web Monitoring from PhysOrg.com (AP) -- At first, Liu Xiaoyuan just fumed when his online journal postings disappeared with no explanation. Then he decided to do something few if any of China's censored bloggers had tried. He sued his service provider. [...]
Ladies and gentlemen this is what happens when government has total control of your life. They can censor your speech among other things. This is why America's founding fathers created the Bill of Rights for just this reason--to protect Americans from a potentially corrupt government. Keep in mind only government can truly censor--they are the only ones who make the laws. And people say President Bush is violating citizens privacy by listening to terrorist's conversations overseas to other terrorists. What the Chinese government is doing is far worse. America is not censoring any book that criticizes our government or our leader (and some anti-Bush books attack him on a personal level). I don't see this book being censored: Follow the money: how George W. Bush and the Texas Republicans hog-tied America (2007) by John Anderson (and no I haven't read this book). I wonder how many books in China criticize the Chinese government? Probably zero. Where are the civil rights people complaining about what the Chinese government is doing?
I just don't trust the Chinese government. After all it is still Communism. I wonder how long will it be when the government takes total control of the foreign businesses in China. Just because you have a little bit of capitalism in China does not mean China will change its form of government. First, you have to have democracy. Then capitalism will follow.
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