MS Stalinism 2006 (moved)
First of all, happy new year! I really don’t care but everybody kept saying it so I just copied it to fit in and have some more beer.
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but the western media actually started to report about the problems in China. I can’t believe how long the western world has tolerated and ignored the problem. For all these years China was the big country filled with people making all our stuff. It all has ‘Made in China’ printed on it. We never got a single news item about the people of Taiwan, Tibet or Hong Kong. All of them politically and socially very active regions. The last thing I could remember was the President’s birthday with all the red parades and things like that. The people of China do not have the freedom we do. We can say what ever we want to. We can write what we want to. We can read and think what we want to. Only our actions are less free by law. This is how the free state works, we are a free democracy and should be proud on what we have. 1,3 billion people in China can’t. One of my favorite ways to express myself, with text on the internet, is filtered and checked by the government. Chinese people can’t express what they think about their situation. Censorship. The Chinese governement says it’s to protect the people from bad influences. Why would the truth be a bad influence? Why shouldn’t the Chinese people know what’s going on? The government knows that if the people of China get the chance they will overthrow the Stalinists, and no, I won’t even call them communists, and build a new democracy on top of the Stalinist ruins. They fear their own people and the people fear the government in return. But in reality the real power is with the people. They have the power to overthrow the current Chinese government. They don’t. They can’t inform themselves with information needed to sustain such an uprising. Censorship again. It’s a balance fixed on top of a huge bomb set to go off at the slightest unbalance. When it goes, it goes with a bang. A tsunami of freedom will spread over the globe as one of the final undemocratic pillars fall. North Korea will be next, the last communist countries in eastern Europe and the Baltic region won’t survive either.
But what keeps this balance from falling? We do. The western countries keep investing into China because of it’s cheap labour and resources. It’s all about the money. We make money out of them. That’s why we don’t dare to say the truth. Even our democratic messiah, George Walker Bush, had trouble talking to the Chinese about freedom and human rights. China is a bigger threat to mankind than your Bin Laden. 9/11 was nothing compared to what the Chinese did! The Chinese killed millions and silenced 1,3 billion opinions. Isn’t this a bigger threat to your democratic free world? Cowards! All of you megalomaniac enterprise driven economic vampires! You don’t know what you just did by signing this multi-billion deal with the Chinese government. You helped the Stalinist reign live on another day! Yes, it’s a lot of money. Forget the money for once and think about what you actually accomplish.
The worst company of them all is Microsoft. It’s an evil company from Redmond we all know from the operating system actually named after a series of (security)holes in a (fire)wall. The Chinese government needs IT solutions to filter the information highway so that no ‘bad’ information can come in or get out of the country. Who do you think provides them? Right, our friends from Redmond, USA. They didn’t go out in the open about it, but several resources tell Microsoft is helping the Chinese government with censorship. Today some proof came in. The Chinese like to blog. The Microsoft Network (MSN) provides space for the Chinese to write their blogs. Today an entire Chinese blog was deleted after a request from the Chinese government. The blog would contain ‘bad’ information for the Chinese people. The poor blogger was just expressing his discontent about the Chinese state. Now Microsoft went too far. They collaborated with the enemy. Think again before purchasing a Microsoft product. You are supporting large scale censorship in China.
If I would have written this in China I would be arrested and sent to one of China’s inhumane jails to ‘think it over’.