"In response, the propaganda departments of provincial and municipal governments have recently been instructed to build teams of internet commentators, whose job is to guide discussion on public bulletin boards away from politically sensitive topics by posting opinions anonymously or under false names."As in many other areas, the Chinese may be slightly behind the US in this particular objective, because we already have this policy written into our Patriot Act, and hordes of pro-government anonymous posters on our "internets". What do you think "Alan S"? Or "Anonymous"? Please comment in your normal 3am visits and tie this post together with Hillarycare, Vince Foster, Bill Clinton's infidelities, or Michael Moore's weight, or my lack of patriotism (oh, by the way, I have not forgotten that it's Flag Day; I'm not burning any on the barbeque this year like we liberals usually do, but I am taking special pleasure in the fact that we seem to be seeing a pronounced reduction in the number of them on antennas and windows lately).
***"In the information age and the internet age, the most important and critical mission in front of us is how to seize the initiative on internet opinion and how to seize the high point of internet opinion," the paper quoted the deputy director of the local propaganda department, Zhang Fenglin, as saying.
***A summary of objectives declared that commentators should "be proactive in developing discussion, increase control, accentuate the good, avoid the bad, and use internet debate to our advantage."
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
"... secret internet police target critics with web of propaganda" (or, "Alan S" and "Anonymous," who are you really working for?)
FROM: Guardian Unlimited | Online | "China's secret internet police target critics with web of propaganda":
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Bwa-ha-ha! Alan S comes through for you, TBL, like a bot if I ever saw one. And with the Clinton Blame, no less. I'm surprised he didn't start in on the Clenis. That is so funny. Thank you for my first really strong laugh of the day.
Yeah, these clowns are part of an organized effort to disrupt and misdirect discussion on the liberal/progressive blogs and keep us from getting at that which is important. I have banned people before for that. If you have that power, you can maintain control of your site's threads. I don't feel any obligation to provide someone else a forum for his or her hobby-horse or subversion.
Dr Dean's statements about the Republicans being a white, Christian party have beenborne out by the facts. Of 274 Republican federal legislators, 269 are white. Of 3,643 Republicans serving in state legislatures across the country, only 44 of them are minorities, amounting to 1.2%. That;s the discussion I find interesting.
Or the Downing Street Memo. Or Sensebrenner's illegal curtailing of discussion of the Patriot Act in a session of a congressional committee where witnesses had been brought in. These are important matters, not "gee, Clinton was friendly to the Chinese". A concerned citizen, a patriot, would discuss what is happening today. Someone who won't discuss what is happening today is, well, a butthead.
Over to you butthe...er, Alan S.
"...I don't feel any obligation to provide someone else a forum for his or her hobby-horse or subversion."
But it is fun. I mean, I couldn't write these any better as parodies. The repetition and the predictability of the responses is the thing that amazes me the most, but I guess it's all part of the whole strategy needed for "catapulting the propaganda."
That's your call. It's your blog.
And Alan S, I mean, the guy brings up Clinton, for crying all night. So stupid. Like a bot. The emptyhead-bot.
Please Alan, I won't give you the satisfaction of banning your comments, but please try to separate the political from the personal. I would ask that you look up "ad hominem" in a basic list of logical fallacies. Please try to stick to a subject. Please try to avoid personal attacks (even if that is the only defense that Bushistas are left with). You can call me a Crybaby or a Conspiracy Theorist or a Liberal, but mind your manners with your fellow commenters. OK? What gives you the right to talk about other people's sex lives? Is that the only thing that conservatives think about?
"Cold Rooms,Hot Rooms,fetal position,urinating on oneself,listening to loud rap music. If that is torture to you I'm sorry."
The way you describe it, you make it sound like a fraternity hazing, but if you look at a picture or two from Abu Ghraib I don't think any intelligent person could fail to say, "Yes, This Is Torture!" And because it is being carried out in our names, it's worse. It is outrageous that these acts are being carried out by people wearing our uniform and carrying our flag.
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