[Anti-Bubba182]

"China has closed 47,000 internet cafes in a campaign aimed at creating a more "wholesome environment" for children..."

Baloney! They want a wholesome enviornment for the Communist Party to enforce iron control on the people.

They also want to have international control of the Internet as a whole.

China charges U.S. monopolizes the Internet, seeks global control

All of these bleatings are efforts to maintain political control, which the free exchange of information on the internet works against.

[nicollo]

All of these bleatings are efforts to maintain political control, which the free exchange of information on the internet works against.

Capitalism can thrive for a time under a totalitarian system, but only for a time. Just look at France...

[wai-ming]

Soft porn is readily available on the Internet in China (at least that's what I'm told). What they're really after is websites providing information that could undermine Communist party rule.

Pretending to go after pornography for the sake of "the children" is a ruse for censoring anything or anyone who is a threat to the government.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The UN was preparing to do exactly this in the 80's.
It was the last straw that made The Gipper pull us out of UNESCO.

[dog breath]

You are correct it is all about control. They want to keep their people thinking that they are living in a modern country. The Internet gives them access to people who would open their eyes to the still brutal repressiveness of their government.

[goldwater64]

Heck, I'm Catholic and if I were in China, my prayers to Pope John Paul II would have to go through Beijing. And practically everything else I'd want to do. Mao Lives.

[Teplukin]

Can someone please answer the following question for me (an unreconstructed right-wing knuckle dragger whose grandfather perished fighting communists sixty years this year): why do millions of American go into Walmart each day & purchase Chinese goods?

By so doing, they empower the communists, and destroy American manufacturing. That is just PLAIN WRONG!

We must all be willing to pay any price, bear any burden to ensure the success of America!

If I said it once, I said it a million times. Do Not Support the Chinese Communists!

Let me be perfectly frank: I am mad as hell and I am not taking it anymore!