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Can we move this thread to com-priv only? I got enough to read. Or at least maybe you could discuss primatology, which at least I find interesting. Thanks, Selina > On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Vadim Antonov wrote: > > > Their "partnership" with censors of a communist regime > > is repugnant. Using the modern technology to build a > > giant brainwashing machine is very scary. > > Since you are a person that saw up-front and close the democratizing > effects of a telecommunications network on the democratization of a > communist country, I find this a rather surprising statement. > > The network will let more Chinese citizens communicate with each other > than ever before. And I strongly expect that there will be dozens of > gateways between this "intranet" and China's Internet providers. > > You, of all people, should realize that withholding commnications > technology sterngthens and isolates communist regimes. But hooking them > into the global capitalist economy at the state level will eventually pay > dividends by creating a bourgeois class (the educated middle class) which > will force democratization to occur. > > Not everybody follows the U.S. model of democracy, for instance Canada > does not. But that doesn't mean we aren't free and it doesn't mean we > aren't happy. > > Have you changed from a Soviet imperialist into an American imperialist? > Don't you realize that parallelism can be exploited in politics as well as > in routing? Create millions of small opportunities for Chinese people to > share information and they will do the rest. > > Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting > Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 > http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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