Internet freedom
Friday, October 21st, 2005 | 8:34 pm @ SK
Last month, Chinese blogger Frank Dai wrote an article on Global Voices Online (GVO) where he talked about the Government effort on banning the usage of Skype.
Yesterday, he wrote that Wikipedia is now blocked in China for the third time, as ironical as after the Chinese government issued the "White Paper on Democracy in China".
Somehow, I’m feeling grateful that, the country that I’m living in now enables me to communicate through Skype and access the Online Encyclopedia anytime.
Undeniable, we’re better off compared to mainland China, however, I’m wondering, does that mean that we must feel contended?
October 22nd, 2005 at 7:39 pm
China is a Communist country.
Malaysia is a (supposed to be) democractic country.
You can’t compare the two of them using the same scale.
Anyhow, we are still better then some (fill in the blanks with your favourite benchmark country used by BN leaders).
October 23rd, 2005 at 1:49 am
Yeah, you’re right.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:48 am
[…] For years the outside world had been criticising China for its control of the Internet, now the Beijing Government is hitting back. […]