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To: LogicWings
[China] will stall if they don't give their people full access to the Internet

No they won't. As long as the Chinese are willing to manufacturer goods for American consumption at pennies on the dollar under sweatshop conditions, with few environmental strictures, and American businesses pursue same with little regard for the future consequences, China won't stall. Plus which, Americans have "full access" to the Internet, but most couch potatoes still get their news from the idiot box. To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The only man worse off than a man who can't read is one who can but doesn't."

129 posted on 02/15/2003 8:44:46 PM PST by captain11
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To: captain11
No they won't.

Always bugs me when people state opinions as dogmatic fact. The Chinese are having increasing problems with another uprising like Tiennaman (and I'm sure thats spelled wrong0 Square. They will stall.

As long as the Chinese are willing to manufacturer goods for American consumption at pennies on the dollar under sweatshop conditions, with few environmental strictures, and American businesses pursue same with little regard for the future consequences, China won't stall

And that's the point, they won't continue to be willing. They cannot continue to educate their populace enough to work under the conditions necessary without the natives getting restless. It ain't a water monopoly. Either they clamp down, and stall; or they loosen and democratize. Laws of economics and all that.

Plus which, Americans have "full access" to the Internet, but most couch potatoes still get their news from the idiot box.

And that full access has resulted in the Repubs dominating all three branches of government for the first time in recent memory, and I credit this site, Newsmax, TownHall, and just a plethora of conservative leaning websites, as much or more than Fox News, Rush, Hannity and Savage. They don't have a monopoly upon news and info anymore, and it makes a difference.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The only man worse off than a man who can't read is one who can but doesn't."

Let 'em sit. I am active on dozens of venues. Local ones, national ones, and so are many others. Be as pessimistic as you like, puts in sitting next to the couch potatoes.

163 posted on 02/16/2003 1:20:47 AM PST by LogicWings
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