Re:Behind the Great Wall (Score 1)

I really don't know whether this gentleman's comments are due to his unbelievable ignorance or just plain pure bias. It is really funny for me (as a Chinese who are living in US right now) to read his sentence like this: "As long as you are not advocating the overthrow of the government or engaging in illegal activities you aren't going to have too many problems here." He conveniently forgot or just doesn't have a clue that the definition of "advocating the overthrow of the government" is completely in the hands of Chinese government (or better referred as CCP (Chinese Communist Party) government). Merely expressing your honest opinions about social and political issues can grant you easily the accusation of overthrowing the gonvernment. If you don't believe this, how about holding a sign at Tianmen Square in Beijing stating you really dislike what CCP gonvernment did at 1989 in a bloody military crack down on those peacefully protesting students, and demanding that CCP should at least allow open discussion on this issue, etc etc. Just holding your banner open, standing there peacefully and smilingly. Are you advocating the overthrow of the government? Sure you're not - but wait, that is by US standard or standard in any democratic country. Minutes after your banner open you'll have a much better idea what kind of government you're dealing with in China. And I'm sure it will make you realize that you're lucky to be a foreigner in China. In terms of internet censorship, please don't just give us a list of english sites. They're spared b/c 99.999% chinese simply can't read any english. Try some sites in Chinese overseas like Chinesenewsnet.com, even wikipedia.com like someone already suggested. Or, just do a search with chinese search engines such as Baidu.com or Google.com (on its chinese servers) with chinese characters like 1989 Tianmen, 64 (June 4th), Falun Gong, and tell us what a nice experience of having your IE reset with "page not found", hah? I am a Chinese and I love my country dearly. And that's exactly the reason I feel outraged when seeing that CCP government keeps stripping Chinese people off some very basic political rights and freedom they now aboslutely deserve. The CCP should be given credit for the boomy economy in China, but these credits by no means should spare them from being critisized for their reluctance to adanvce any political reforms to make China more democratic country and to give Chinese people their basic human rights.