Posted on 07/28/2015 6:24:08 PM PDT by Crazieman
SHANGHAI—As social media helped topple regimes in the Middle East and northern Africa, a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army publicly warned that an Internet dominated by the U.S. threatened to overthrow China’s Communist Party.
Ye Zheng and a Chinese researcher, writing in the state-run China Youth Daily, said the Internet represented a new form of global control, and the U.S. was a “shadow” present during some of those popular uprisings. Beijing had better pay attention.
Four years after they sounded that alarm, China is paying a lot of attention. Its government is pushing to rewrite the rules of the global Internet, aiming to draw the world’s largest group of Internet users away from an interconnected global commons and to increasingly run parts of the Internet on China’s terms.
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The first rule of the Internet is:
There are no rules.
Well, not really, but almost. That’s what makes it work.
No problem. Create your own damned network.
Gee...it’s almost as if the USA has weak leadership.
Those Chinese folks who are worried about losing their communist party should just immigrate to the US. We seem to be hell-bent and installing communism over here.
Yemen, Egypt & Libya?
Most Chinese folks have always preferred empire in some ways.
At any given moment China’s Cummunist Party is three to five viral tweets away from being hung from the street lights. They know that!
True. Imagine Tiannemen Square with smart phones.
Guess we shouldn’t have given them the internet.
Oh well, we have a black president.
That’s all that really matters. :)
Beautiful...!!!
Then China can cutoff the outside world and rule their own intranet.
Build your own damn network, lazy Maoists!
The Russians are working with the Chinese on this.
>>At any given moment China’s Cummunist Party is three to five viral tweets away from being hung from the street lights. They know that!
They also know...
http://www.chinasucks.org/cannibalism.htm
How thin the line is between ordering from the menu and being on it when TSHTF.
The Horror!
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