Ongoing Chinese Censorship Making these forums inaccessible to China

We've had a number of Chinese from mainland China post here in this forum. Everytime they do, this site becomes inaccessible to them the next day!

This is fucked up, and it's due to the cooperation of Microsoft, Google and Cisco who've helped the Chinese government develop the filters they need to keep on censoring the Internet.

If you care about FREE SPEECH, then this should concern you because Google, Cisco and Microsoft now have the filters they need to censor speech on the Internet ANYWHERE, including your own country.

China censors free speech so that dissidents cannot be heard, so that crimes by China's government and leaders are covered up, so that they can stay in power without any opposition.

How long will it be before other governments use these tools to suppress their own people's human right to free speech?

 

LOL! I have found a north-south difference in a few countries, especially the USA. In the US we say the southerners are slow (they certainly speak slower), lazy, conservative, less tolerant than northerners.

This is probably due to history and climate. It's hotter, more humid down south. The south was also home to most of the slaves in the US for the first two centuries, so they tend to have different (conservative) attitudes towards race and class.

But as the Internet becomes more integrated into our lives, and people get exposed to more ideas outside their own sub-culture, those differences will lessen and hopefully we will all become more tolerant of each other.

 

Questions for you Cathy... (if you don't want to answer, that's fine)

How is it being a Christian in China today? Are there any limitations imposed upon Christians in your area? Is it no different being a Christian than being a communist (atheist)? Do you have Christian TV channels, like we do here in the US? Are Christians allowed to go door to do and prostelitize their neighbors?

 

I'm sorry I wrote it wrong. It should be door to door, which means you visit your neighbors, talk to them about your belief in Christianity (witnessing how Jesus came to you), and try to get them to join your church.

This is what those missionaries from Reno did to you.

Christians are supposed to go out and spread the "word".

Many people in America resent this tactic too, but it is legal here, and some groups do it all the time.

As you found out, there are many types of Christian churches, some are more liberal than others.

I like that many Chinese are Buddhists.