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    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    I just want to know why no one is saying anything about that flying horseshoe crab and euglenozoa going towards the building.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    It's China. What do you honestly expect?
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    Image of Cetrian Cetrian
    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    Glad we have a "free" press here. /snicker


    Also, why on Earth do you "sometimes understand" their censorship because of the large numbers of people present? That kind of thinking blows my mind - its that sort of slippery slope eroding our freedoms here.


    "Well gee, its better if the people just don't know, this once... they're too ill-informed to handle it... etc"

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    Image of Elaine Chow Elaine Chow
    02/10/09

    @Cetrian: I'm definitely against censorship completely... but I get why there are instances where it would be irresponsible to put out news the way we do in the States.


    The effect of everything here is quadrupled just because of the size of the population. Add to that the fact that most of the population is still rural and/or poor, and you could get uprisings over wrong and/or incendiary information.


    Unfortunately, the CCP uses that justification to quash a lot of stuff that should NEVER be quashed. But, I'm just saying, that excuse isn't always invalid.

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    02/10/09

    @Elaine Chow: not sure I buy that as a justification... by that logic, we should expect Canada or Denmark to have a freer press than the US, since they have smaller populations with (on average) higher levels of education and literacy than America.


    I'm very wary of that sort of "sometimes censorship is justified for the good of the people" thinking, because I can't see how that leads to anything other than to a very slippery slope.

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    02/10/09

    @anfield: She's not saying that it justifies what they do, merely that China uses that as an excuse.
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    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    Elaine, be safe. Please.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    behold, the powers of the internets
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    Image of dan325013 dan325013
    02/10/09

    In reply to Reports of CCTV Skyscraper Fire Hard to Find in Chinese Media
    first?
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    Image of s017jrs s017jrs
    02/10/09

    @dan325013:


    Now where did they put that banhammer!?

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    Image of matt buchanan matt buchanan
    02/10/09

    @s017jrs: Found it.
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    12/03/08

    In reply to China's CCTV Headquarters Trying to Shake "Hemorrhoids" Nickname
    It does sorta look like a caganer doesn't it?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/03/08

    In reply to China's CCTV Headquarters Trying to Shake "Hemorrhoids" Nickname
    They could call it something more like "Popping a Squat", since there's really nothing toilet bowlish under the building.
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