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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Bay Networks in bed with commie censors?
Edward Fang <[email protected]> wrote: 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. >How so ? Communications is actually loosening communism >as it was in China. Yes. >Fax machines have helped, and anything >that facilitates the exchange of ideas will only make >China bend closer to a 'democracy standard'. This network facilitates more propaganda; not the "exchange of ideas". A Chineze citizen would have to be a naive idiot, or a hard-core dissident not minding some time in a jail, to post anything subversive over a state network. >If you see >how China has changed from 10 years ago to now (some form >of capitalism), you will see that they cannot and will not >run the country as communism was once run. Capitalism != freedom of spech. Look at what's going on in Singapore. >I don't think this has anything to do with >commercialism. Are you implying that Cisco and/or >other US firms would turn this deal down (and or not >pursue it?). They didn't do anything like that, ok? >Should we also boycott Coke, McDonalds, KFC, McDonald >Douglas, etc ? Since they all profit from the people >of a 'communist' country that does not endorse the >same personal freedoms that we do. They do not profit by creating means for state brainwashing and censorship. The trade and communications with _people_ of communist countries is unquestionable good. Helping the communist state to spread their propaganda is amoral. Please make a difference between a person eating a burger and a state agency running the politically censored network. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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