links for 2008-02-21

• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China arrests over HK sex scandal
  "Police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzen have arrested 10 people in connection with a sex scandal that has generated intense public interest."
  (tags: hongkong porn china internet sex censorship law chineseinternetresearch)
• Deus Ex Malcontent: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career)
  "CNN fired me, and did it without even a thought to the power that I might wield as an average person with a brain, a computer, and an audience."
  (tags: cnn journalism media news timewarner blogging bloggers broadcast newmedia)
• The Web Difference
  A Harvard Law School course taught by John Palfrey and David Weinberger. Looks fabulous!
  (tags: harvard law palfrey weinberger syllabus web2.0 internet education blogs teaching)
• FOIA Document Shows Improper FBI Access to Entire Domain's Email | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  "According to a document obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through the Freedom of Information Act, an "apparent miscommunication" resulted in unauthorized FBI access to an entire domain's email, rather than the single email account the Bureau
  (tags: surveillance privacy u.s.a. law freespeech humanrights FBI)
• New York City Still Tallying Votes | The Trail | washingtonpost.com
  "The Board of Elections has acknowledged that errors in reporting the election day tallies made it appear that Obama had received not a single vote in 55 election districts, when in reality his votes had simply not been counted..."
  (tags: obama u.s.a. vote2008 politics)
• U.S. Security Concerns Block China’s 3Com Deal - New York Times
  " Does the “America for Sale” sign require a warning label? That would seem to be the case in light of the apparent collapse on Wednesday of a Chinese company’s effort to purchase a stake in 3Com..."
  (tags: 3Com Huawei China u.s.a. business investment)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

" Does the “America for Sale” sign require a warning label? That would seem to be the case in light of the apparent collapse on Wednesday of a Chinese company’s effort to purchase a stake in 3Com..."

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This is another reason why I think China is just a machine of the West. All of us in East Asia - North Korea, South Korea, Japan and China togethr with South East Asia and later India and Pakistan should unite and form an economy that is more and more independent from that of the American system. Iraq and Iran should be united into Greater Persia.

Just imagine, if all the goods that were made in China remain in Asia instead of being exported away, standards of living would increase dramatically.

Somepeople will say, where is China going to get the money if they don't export. Well, those money are just worthless papers right now. Can't even buy 3com. This is a wake up call.