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Listed below are comments made by politequisling between Wednesday, 30th July 2008 and Saturday, 9th August 2008.

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Opening ceremony cool - for some 5:26pm on 09 Aug 2008 "How dare you criticise China's seats! Who gives you the right to look under our seats Mr Reynolds!"

Hahahah, Senlin, are you being sarcastic or are you really serious about it?
I think all the Chinese here should be aware that you are reading things posted on a British media website and it is normal for a journalist have a totally different perspective to look at a foreign country. If complements are the only thing you want to hear, you should watch CCTV, read China Daily.

James, everything is China is about face. you should have given it a second thought when you wanted to tell the my innocent folks the emperor’s butt also sweats.
Unblocking websites 6:50pm on 31 Jul 2008 . Too bad I still can’t access to my fav porn site just by using IE.
But it is remarkable for the country to be able to look Chinese BBC and wikipedia even just for 2 weeks! Just for that reason, I am embracing the OG with open arms.
after all, whoever wants to look at stuff that is blocked can always use Privoxy software.
Just speaking for myself, not dare to repersent “ the Chinese people” or even “ the most Chinese people” like a lot people do here, I am personally happy about it.

BBC cheerz!
Limited access 3:03pm on 31 Jul 2008 Hey James.

First of all I would like to acknowledge my gratitude to my government for being able to access the BBC website without using any software.

Here is my opinion about the issue and some of the readers comments.

As a responsible adult with a rational mind, I am willing to have the right to access all kinds of information. God, evil, you judge it. It is simply my personal choice to decide whose voice I am curious to hear, whose opinion I would like to reference. Therefore, I concede censorship invades my cognitive rights by limiting and filtering information. Importantly, it also impedes the public from making the right decision for their own country. Take the Iraq War for example, it is a typical case of the government misleads the public opinion by selecting or even making up false information. For the sake of well-being of society, I personally don’t see why people come to be okay with such behavior and at the same time, talking on the behalf of “the Chinese people”.

Most normal human-being would have to learn how to deal with criticism from other people from very early ages. There are mainly two kinds of criticism well-intended and evil-intended both of which are very easy to judge. Well-intended criticism points out problems that really exist, while the evil ones create or compose flaws that you do not have. To me, internet censorship is a problem does exists in my country, and I don’t feel shame or angry when someone acknowledge the problem to me for I believe that knowing the problem won’t make things worse, but being ignorant about it will. I would like acclaim I that I live in a world full of perfectness, but as a matter of fact, there are problems in every country, every political system. Without the courage to face who we really are, we will accomplish no advancement in our society.

i think BBC have been provding mostly level headed report about China about the Olmypics. and i will keep supporting this blog by sharing my humble thoughts.
Limited access 6:28pm on 30 Jul 2008 Well..even if the internet censor is totally cancelled it would not mean anyting in terms of progression in freedom of speech. just like the air in beijing and many other things, it will go back to its normal condition right after the games is over.
The benevolent emperor 3:45pm on 30 Jul 2008 hey James!
So I read some of comments about your articles. Most people argue that it not necessary to blame the communist system and top leaders basically for the country’s remarkable economic achievements during the past 20 years, after Deng’s reform. However, I disagree.

I concede it is true that the current government policies and reform has made most of the population free from the bother of bloody political movements starvations and wars for the longest period in contemporary history. Every Chinese who has access to read this article has witnessed a significant progression in modernization, experienced a great improvement of our living standard. A lot people, including myself, a college graduate, are generally happy about our living condition knowing the suffering of the previous generations. Therefore, to such extent, I can understand the reason why most people decide to be less critical to our current political system. However, from reading the comments I still found my disagreements with some generally accepted assertions.

First of all, I highly doubt with any statement starts with the term “the Chinese people”. I can possibly assert that 99 percent of the people comes to the Blog and post comment have received fairly good education which also grant them middle or upper class social statues. It is accord to common sense that the middle and upper class have distinguish life experience and standing points from the lower class, which in China means the other ten hundred millions agriculture population who literally obtain a second class citizenship. Without the life experience of those humblest people who can be contented with a shabby shelter and a slice of bread, I think it is irresponsible to make any conclusion about this nation.

Secondly, I am hard-pressed to agree with the assertion that communism is chosen by the majority Chinese people. From my collective life experience and the knowledge I know about my people, “the Chinese” would embrace any political system bring them peace and a comfortable life. Whoever won the civil war would be welcomed for bringing back peace to the country. Moreover, we can find more evidence from people’s reaction to Deng’s political reform----nobody actually mind if we are still communism or capitalism or something else as long as we are having a better life than before, the example also illustrate that even the government does not really care about the communism ideology and willing to do what they can to stay in power. Throughout history, we have never been a nation activity involved with political lives. Just imagine if we ask people about their opinion about the government in the 1960s during starvation, most people would still give positive answers. In short, the victory of communism in China is nothing but one accomplishment of military force and propagandas.

Thirdly, I disagree to judge a government by its materialistic achievement. It is almost cliché to say the government has done a great job in economy and I could not agree with it more .however, there are soo many other factors to judge the quality of life. The feudalistic destinies also had remarkable economical materialistic achievements. As a matter of fact, it is vital for any dictatorship to improve people’s living standard by developing economy in order to survive. The mean problem about this country is not about economy is not about human-right, it is about the authority’s unlimited power, nobody knows our when it changes into a destructive force.

so that is my thoughts about your aritcle and about my country. hope it provide something contributive ideas to all!

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