5 Responses to “links for 2006-11-02”

1. mahathir_fan Says:
   November 2nd, 2006 at 2:26 pm

   Many foreigners are quite an enigmatic group.

   First, they are concern about censorship in China. Yet when Chinese citizens start getting on the internet and putting “China is the world’s largest democracy” on wikipedia entries, they feel threatened.

   It seems that certain concerned sectors of this group want free speech in China in order to influence the minds of the Chinese people but they don’t welcome Chinese people influencing their values vice versa.

2. myrick Says:
   November 2nd, 2006 at 3:15 pm

   The Chinese government does not allow access to Wikipedia. It’s blocked by the Great Firewall. Wikipedia can be accessed via proxy, but it cannot be edited if a proxy is used.With that, Chinese citizens are NOT writing that “China is the world’s largest democracy” on Wikipedia. They’re not writing anything because their own ‘democratic’ government won’t let them access the site!

   Further, I’ve only encountered one person who harbors the illusion that China is a democracy. So, if any such thing is being written it’s likely being done by a Malaysian.

   If other Wiki users delete that statement, it’s because it’s untrue.

3. mahathir_fan Says:
   November 3rd, 2006 at 11:58 am

   why is it untrue that China is not a democracy? can a person with no criminal record run for election?

   I see people voting here:
   http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/08/content_288018.htm

   I have had people who come up and say that Iran isn’t a democracy either and some Malaysia even. So its pretty hard to debate this category if even Iran and Malaysia don’t make the democratic cut then we simply have very serious differences on standards on what constitute democracy. I don’t live in China so I can’t really debate this in detail other than I know people seem to hvae the right to vote and run for office and the government belongs to the people.

4. mahathir_fan Says:
   November 9th, 2006 at 9:04 am

   This is happening as we speak. Anybody in Beijing, please let me know why this election still does not qualify China as a democracy.
   any beijingers out there who qualify to vote, but was not allowed to vote? please voice your complains. if there are no complains, then i think China must be a democracy.

   http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/09/content_728292.htm
   Beijingers vote for district deputies
   Beijingers went to the polls¡¡Wednesday to elect deputies for the local people’s congress.

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   November 21st, 2006 at 6:10 am

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