links for 2008-02-19

• Chinese Ministries Jointly Regulating Online Order - ChinaTechNews.com - The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News, Information, and Commentary on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Telecom, and Wireless I
  "News from the Ministry of Public Security is that 13 Chinese ministries have been taking a joint action since last month to regulate online order, with the emphasis being given to the cleaning out of such content as candid snapshots, nude pictures and "u
  (tags: china internet chineseinternetresearch regulation)
• MediaShift . Open Source Ideas::How Our Next President Should Use Participatory Media | PBS
  Mark Glaser lists "some ways that I think the next president can use technology to be more responsive."
  (tags: u.s.a. vote2008 politics government)
• Elite China think-tank issues political reform blueprint | International | Reuters
  "China risks dangerous instability unless it embraces democratic reforms to limit the power of the ruling Communist Party, foster competitive voting and rein in censors, the Party's top think-tank has warned in a new report."
  (tags: china politics communistparty reform democracy policy censorship freespeech)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » A good oops
  Jeff Jarvis discusses a self-evalutaion memo which Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, accidentally sent to his students...
  (tags: journalism education teaching citizenmedia CitizenJournalism)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

" Dutch lawmaker calls for Olympics boycott"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/19/olympics.boycott.ap/index.html

Another person is calling for the Olympics boycott and I AM LOVING IT!!!

Chinese people should read such callings as a racist attempt to undermine their motherland. We should not look at it as some kind of human rights protests.

If this were a human rights protest, then the call should have been for the Chinese people to boycott their own Olympics. After all according to these human rights people, isn't the Chinese people the ones whose rights are undermined most under the Communist regime? Chinese people can be asked to not purchase tickets to watch the Olympics to boycott because of their government's "record of human rights".

But hey, they aren't calling for the people whom they claim are suffering from the Chinese government to boycott the Olympics.
Because by and large, most people's rights are not violated. Chinese people's rights are firmly protected by the constitution.

The way such boycott calls should be interpreted is that they are another response to China phobia. I urge Chinese people to learn English because there is no shortage of such China phobia and China hatred on internet newsgroups. A lot of Chinese people are naive thinking that we are one big family in this world irregardless of race and nationality. That's just a Marxism utopia.

Please, let the Boycott begins!