Grass-Mud Horse of China: protesting censorship

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15 Apr 2010, 7:13 pm

I don't know about you guys, but I believe access to an uncensored internet should be a fundamental right for all human beings and I think what's going on in China is frightening. I am happy to see resistance like this. Warning--the video subtitles contain explicit language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2eh4xehc4

From NY Time article A Dirty Pun Tweaks China’s Online Censors:

The grass-mud horse is an example of something that, in China’s authoritarian system, passes as subversive behavior. Conceived as an impish protest against censorship, the foul-named little horse has not merely made government censors look ridiculous, although it has surely done that.

It has also raised real questions about China’s ability to stanch the flow of information over the Internet — a project on which the Chinese government already has expended untold riches, and written countless software algorithms to weed deviant thought from the world’s largest cyber-community.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world ... beast.html



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15 Apr 2010, 7:27 pm

its going on here already individual websites censor their content to bow down to advertisers. i was a frequent visitor of a user created art site, some stuff i personally didnt agree with was on there, i didnt look at it nothing forced me to. it didnt bother me that others looked at it. then there was a big war on the fourms cause the advertisers wanted content removed cause they didnt like it or they would pull sponsership. personal taste aside, people have the right to look at what ever they want(law providing) i dont think that choice should be left to advertisers just because they feel it distasteful



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15 Apr 2010, 11:17 pm

It is amusing (and good) to know that Chinese can be as garbage mouth as Americans. We have a lot in common there.

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16 Apr 2010, 12:30 am

ruveyn wrote:
It is amusing (and good) to know that Chinese can be as garbage mouth as Americans. We have a lot in common there.

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For the first time, I agree with you.


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16 Apr 2010, 1:27 am

Heh, swear words are the first words one learns when one learns of a new language. <.< (or among them, at least) Usually thanks to the unrestrained adults (or those that have drinked too much ^.- ).



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27 Apr 2010, 12:41 pm

phil777 wrote:
Heh, swear words are the first words one learns when one learns of a new language. <.< (or among them, at least) Usually thanks to the unrestrained adults (or those that have drinked too much ^.- ).


And at the same time they tell their kids not to use them, even though eventually in their adult life they will.

To be on topic, this shows that while the Chinese people are unable to stand up for themselves physically, they can still rebel against a government that does not want to be accountable.



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27 Apr 2010, 1:05 pm

They should protest censorship, I hope they win this fight.


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