China Grows Its Own Twitter 120
Stirfry192 writes "Twitter is banned in China, and the authorities are trying to foster a censored version of the service, but the speed and nature of such services calls into question China's ability to retain control — especially in combustible, highly emotional situations."
Looks like they have some catching up to do. (Score:4, Insightful)
"A lot of the injustices in China aren't necessarily new, but people are just starting to hear about them."
Wait until they hear what really happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Or what their company town's party boss was really doing to the town.
Re:Looks like they have some catching up to do. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Looks like they have some catching up to do. (Score:5, Insightful)
I wasn't alive at the time, but I did learn about it in history class here in the US years later. I got to hear everyone who had an opinion condemn the national guard rather than the students. I learned there was the memorial paid by public funds, and the commemorations that happened year after year. Not to mention the greater emphasis on non-lethal means of riot control brought forth as a result of the incident.
Were you trying to equate Kent State to Tiananmen? Because you failed really hard.
Re:Looks like they have some catching up to do. (Score:1, Insightful)
You didn't understand what he was getting at.
I was 4 years old in May of 1970.
It didn't even cross this little kid's mind that people died at Kent State, let alone that it was the National Guard that did it.
When I got to High School and we learned "US History from the Civil War to the Present" Kent State came up in passing and about 10 minutes of discussion and never heard from again, because it was all about remembering the shit for the test. It didn't strike me until many years later what actually happened. Then what was I going to do, go out in the street and protest?
1989 was 22 years ago. Those 20 year old students are 42 years old now trying to maintain a family and life and have no time to protest.
It's literally ancient history for the average Chinese citizen, and getting less relevant to modern Chinese society as time passes. The Chinese also have a big patriotic streak, and if you bring this up to someone who doesn't know about it, you will likely be accused as a sino-hater, especially if you're a round-eye Xirong.
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BMO
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Re:hate to post off topic, but is it just me? (Score:4, Insightful)
And here we are on Slashdot on a Saturday holiday weekend night.
But look at the bright side. Other folks have to deal with their relatives, drunken friends, taking stupid, ugly girls to see movies that any normal man would hate, drinking reused "beer", and eating stuff that kills.
Faithful geeks, on the other hand, don't have to go anywhere; if their friends are drunk it's a problem only in `svn diff`; their girls are the most beautiful and the least demanding (being downloadable.) Food, however, is a problem - neither them nor us eat at most exquisite French restaurants.
But the question in the end of each day is simple: what have you done today to make this world better? If you say that you ate a bunch of hotdogs, no brownie points for that. But if you wrote 10 lines of code that someone, somewhere needs, it's a good thing. At least that's what workaholics say :-)