Where does free speech fit in?
June 26th, 2007President Hu Jintao, June 25, 2007:
“The government should expand political participation channels for ordinary people, enrich the forms of participation and promote a scientific and democratic decision-making process.”
June 27th, 2007 at 2:01 am
FASCISTS! These communists are worse than the KMT. How much longer before the counter-revolution? They care more about their hold on power than the dignity and security of their subjects. I can’t even have my students log onto the BBC news site, Wikipedia, or even google news! What other country on earth can only maintain power by actively keeping its people stupid?
June 27th, 2007 at 10:16 am
The use of the word “democratic” in that quote sounds like empty rhetoric to me. Are these “political participation channels” really for people to express themselves, or just another instrument of government control?
June 30th, 2007 at 8:55 am
This is a very important issue, that the government itself has set up a standard of open and free participation, so it should live up to its own standards and set them free. Talking and studying about democracy should not be a crime and this mistake on the part of some of the authorities should be fixed.