Thank you for helping us MONKEYS live much “freer” lives. For that, you have my eternal gratitude. I say that from the bottom my heart. Where would all them Chinese bloggers be without your helpful instructions?

Thank you for reinventing the wheel for us and them. Now we, the ordinary yellow folk, and them, the Chinese bloggers, are much “freer” because we have much more access to and in posting tons of good stuff.

We were really helpless before we came across your article, IN ENGLISH, about how to hack CHINESE MSN spaces.

While we are eternally grateful to you and all them kind people here in GVO, commenters and authors alike, it remains a bit perplexing to us monkeys as to why this article was published IN ENGLISH in the first place or at all?

If it was meant to solicit the assistance of well meaning folks, especially those who are so quick to express their colorful opinions of us monkeys and our country Monkeyland, from the whole of the Anglosphere, we really appreciate the kind gesture from the bottom of our hearts. Although it is a bit paternalistic (in your case, maternal), we appreciate it nonetheless.

After all, isn’t this the typical approach that a lot of Anglos (see all the comments above and more to come below) take when it comes to us monkeys. Are there any monkeys in the house that can second this sentiment?

Oh, if the reason why this article was in ENGLISH in the first place is just to point out one more flaw with China to all them people in the Angloshpere, I can only this reason and motive is SO DAMN LAME. Are there any monkeys in the house that can second this sentiment?

Yours truely

So Damn Lame

you do know that you are NOT GOD right? you are just as sinful as any human living on planet earth. . .

On personal note, Ms. Mackinnon, did you provide financial assistance to the three victim who set fire upon themselves ?

Justin

Great job on this article!!!

Now all we need is an army of hackers who will heed the call!!

the rest of the world looks on this sort of arrogance/ignorance with a touch of sadness. america is not some special case, and did not invent democracy or free speech or have some special ownership of it. just under half the country of the world, and just under half the world’s population, are democracies, many as good as the states or better. europe’s countries should be obvious cases here. in very few do candidates have to raise huge amounts of money (in many countries election advertising is paid for by the government). compulsory voting systems in other countries give a wider (and more ‘truthful’) expression of the will of the people in the shape of their government. and the washington lobby movement, the “anonymous” slander campaigns against john kerry, and post-florida judicial rulings against gore, are also worrying to many who love democracy around the world.

the best approach is to look at the flaws in your own country (wherever you are), help others humbly, educate yourself the best you can about others, and try to avoid nationalism.

-Brad