That's the spirit!Originally Posted by The Captain
That's the spirit!
YO. I am not from China.
Yo but you are teh live China.
We should all go to Chinese message boards and post photos of American's holding "I [img]http://home.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/heart.gif[/img] China" signs. Huzzah!
Somehow, I don't think that would carry over as well as you'd like. Yeah... might even make things work... be nice if it works, but it could only prompt a lot of flaming and stuff.
Umm I don't think they have message boards. no free speech = probably not that many message boards.Somehow, I don't think that would carry over as well as you'd like. Yeah... might even make things work... be nice if it works, but it could only prompt a lot of flaming and stuff.
They do have message boards and they do have enough free speecah IMO. The internet doesnt mean that its in China plus theres tons of servers that have chinese in them. I know theres an FFXI Chinese board even thats just for Chinese players there. There are plenty, you just gotta look for em, its not like you can say theres no Japanese or any other country message boards if you can only read English. :rolleyes2
He's right. The internet is home to all things (no matter how illegal) and all peoples (no matter how oppressed). Any culture in the world that has electricity and phone lines also has internet access.
What are all you people talking about? Of course China doesn't have message boards! Why do you think Iri is here?
I can't wait until I go to China. Hiiyy-Yahh! Heh heh.
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Let war come, as a visionary I have forseen all of this which is why I act the way I do and vote for into office who I vote for. There are two possible outcomes.
#1: Some Asian country (It was a psychic dream so I can't tell, it doesn't help that I'm a bigot and think "they all look-alike!" lol.) will pretty much whipe the Earth clean with radical weapons. This is my preffered result. Hummanity is a disease.
#2: Some Middle-Eastern country will succeed on a global scale and put us all under religous tyranny. Not my forte, but I can't say I wouldn't enjoy the suffering and freedom deprivation the unworthy masses would have bestowed upon them.
Then again maybe neither of these might happen, maybe it's all just an enigma of paranoia on my part, and even if so I say bring on the nukes. Natural selection will take it's course and those who cannot survive should and will die.
There's too many people in the world anyway, and most of them are unlikable. I idolize Kim Jong, he may be a lunatic. But atleast he's got the right idea in helping mother Earth by disposing it of the intelligent parasite.
China has a few message boards, but they all type in pin yin if they are serious about anything.
Then you obviously have not been to many message boards, theres chinese words in them not only pin yin since its not that useful in day to day writing.
It's a little-known but true fact that most of China's internet access is provided through US-owned establishments. As a result, the US government has significant control over what content is available in China, so there's a significant amount of censorship. Anything extremely political, "anti-American" or otherwise inflammatory is routinely blocked; the internet cannot be relied upon for giving China full and uncompromised access to the beliefs and opinions of the wider world...
Not totally relevant to this discussion, but significant nonetheless.
By US owned establishments, do you mean like AOL or Earthlink kinda thing? Because i am not really as pro-american on many things...but i dont see how that stops them? Or do you mean something else? I dont see how our ISP blocks our opinions.
I'm not sure of the exact technical details, but I do recall that all of China's internet access is provided by the US somehow. Due to the nature of the arrangements, the government has the ability to screen and moderate exactly what's available to the Chinese public. Some news, government and NGO sites are blocked; site names with certain keywords are also unavailable.
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