[indcons]

The ChiCom/Chinese nationalist point of view is the novelty "in" thing for some on FR. Let's see if this sentiment lasts after the 2008 Olympics - after which the ChiComs won't be really interested in showing their best faces to the world.

On the subject of "unrestricted" Net access, see this story and this one.

Both reports were filed in 2007.

[gogov]

Dude, we have people posting on here regularly from China. Don't you think that FR of all sites would be banned if any site was going to be banned in China.

I'm not accusing you of donning a tin foil hat but you would do well to look at the facts.

I remember a story about the Chinese shutting down an Internet cafe. Turned out it was a firetrap of wires on the third floor of a substandard building. People on here - maybe you - were going off the conspiracy deep-end on that one.

It was nothing more than the Chinese fire marshal saying it was not safe to have 30 computers in one small room with one exit and an electrical box that could not handle the amperage.