Try to stay focused, Football - please explain your support for i.) a controlled press, ii.) the jailing and execution of dissidents, and iii.) the notion that only the CCP can hold the 3000-year-old Chinese state together. Go ahead.
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In China, they do control the press. That is not a hidden thing. How is modern China just over 60 years old now 3000 years old? The more you dig, the deeper from reality you get.
How free is the press in the USA? It is very well known that journalists and entire major media in the USA are fully free to get on board whatever side they want to cheer on in the USA and have in very recent years.
The conservative WorldNetDaily that was kept out of covering the US Congress as it was online and right wing had this to say in 2010. Note not 50 years ago but now.
Please note they state the US Dept of Justice is hiring its own bloggers to get out their versions of the truth much like China allegedly does. However, the PRC does not hide it what it does.
Feds controlling media? It's been done before
Feds controlling media? It's been done before
Posted: January 25, 2010
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In 1948, Frank Wisner, a man with a fascinating past, was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects, the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Later that year, Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media.
Commentary at National Review Online and American Thinker suggests that something similar is underway on the Internet and has readers concerned about the revelation that the Department of Justice has hired bloggers as propagandists and sock puppets.
"The official government directive authorizing the "transparency" program is here."
(but when you go to the source article you will find that the US gov't have ensured the link "here" is now broken.
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NY Times:
Editorial
Twitter Tapping
Published: December 12, 2009
"The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for tax delinquents, copyright infringers and political protesters. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/op...er=rss&emc=rss
"Wired magazine reported last month that In-Q-Tel, an investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has put money into Visible Technologies, a software company that crawls across blogs, online forums, and open networks like Twitter and YouTube to monitor what is being said."
Yes, Freetrader. You are the grand protector of the Chinese denouncing the PRC. Never seen one critical comment on actions in the USA that smack of similar tactics.
You just have your USA centric glasses on all things PRC. The good news is that the USA can sue for access - the bad news is that this has been going on to restrict freedoms of US citizens and others for a long, long time and is not ending soon.
American Thinker Blog: DoJ hires bloggers as propagandists and sock puppets
January 24, 2010
DoJ hires bloggers as propagandists and sock puppets
Clarice Feldman
"Their job is to place "anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama."
How ironic that this is exactly what Freetrader claims the PRC are doing on Geoexpat!
Let the first nation without sin cast the first stone as the Christians used to say (before they realized that verse was no way to build a business).