Comments on: China: Youth, too much free time http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:19:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: matteo mohorovicich http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/comment-page-1/#comment-300351 matteo mohorovicich Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:06:37 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/#comment-300351 "The internet is just like a flood; you can’t stop it even if you want to", says Ran yunfei. That's true. The problem is, as he correctly reminds me, that Chinese authorities often chose to shut it up rather than consider it as a means for development in culture, politics and social matters. Reporteres sans frontières writes today that the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been partally reopened (only the English-version) after a year of closure. That's incredible, if you think to the western usage of the net. But that's true. And that's even more incredible if you think that western firms choose to yield to Chinese government's censorship request to make more business in the Internet field and get fatter market slices. Some of them are the biggest Internet companies in the world: Yahoo! (involved in the past in revealing sensible data to authorities), Msn and Google. “The internet is just like a flood; you can’t stop it even if you want to”, says Ran yunfei. That’s true. The problem is, as he correctly reminds me, that Chinese authorities often chose to shut it up rather than consider it as a means for development in culture, politics and social matters. Reporteres sans frontières writes today that the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has been partally reopened (only the English-version) after a year of closure. That’s incredible, if you think to the western usage of the net. But that’s true. And that’s even more incredible if you think that western firms choose to yield to Chinese government’s censorship request to make more business in the Internet field and get fatter market slices. Some of them are the biggest Internet companies in the world: Yahoo! (involved in the past in revealing sensible data to authorities), Msn and Google.

]]> By: El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Roots and Poetry http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/comment-page-1/#comment-300344 El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado » Blog Archive » Roots and Poetry Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:58:20 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/#comment-300344 [...] But when I hear people say that modern poetry - real poetry, constructed with language, not theatrics - is dead, I ask them to listen to my iPod. When will the most talented hip-hop artists - from Uganda to Cuba to Cincinnati - be recognized as the true poets of contemporary society? [...] [...] But when I hear people say that modern poetry – real poetry, constructed with language, not theatrics – is dead, I ask them to listen to my iPod. When will the most talented hip-hop artists – from Uganda to Cuba to Cincinnati – be recognized as the true poets of contemporary society? [...]

]]> By: zhwj http://globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/comment-page-1/#comment-299694 zhwj Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:15:55 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2006/10/11/china-youth-too-much-free-time/#comment-299694 Thanks for writing all of this up. I've really only been following Yi Sha myself, and that alone has been posting two or three pieces a day mocking Han Han. I think this exchange from a Sina panel captures the whole thing pretty accurately: 　　主持人：韩寒等人站出来批评，然后反批评，争论，究竟谁懂事？谁不懂事？ 　　沈浩波：首先不是批评，是骂，他跳出来是纯骂，我们反过来基本上也是纯骂。 (http://blog.sina.com.cn/lm/8/2006/1010/9186.html ) Thanks for writing all of this up. I’ve really only been following Yi Sha myself, and that alone has been posting two or three pieces a day mocking Han Han.

I think this exchange from a Sina panel captures the whole thing pretty accurately:

　　主持人：韩寒等人站出来批评，然后反批评，争论，究竟谁懂事？谁不懂事？
　　沈浩波：首先不是批评，是骂，他跳出来是纯骂，我们反过来基本上也是纯骂。

(http://blog.sina.com.cn/lm/8/2006/1010/9186.html )

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