china bans individuals from registering domains

[DaddyHalbucks]

Eventually, the internet will prove to be the undoing of all totalitarian governments. The genie will not go back into the bottle.

 

[katherine]

I wouldn't be that optimistic.
Totalitarian governments will continue to exist as long as people allow themselves to be manipulated, of course that applies to any nation on Earth

 

[bwhhisc]

Eventually, the internet will prove to be the undoing of all totalitarian governments. The genie will not go back into the bottle.

Well said...you can see evidence of that on the youtube clips coming from places like Iran. Cellphones are the computers of the future, they will dramaticaly change the political world with a power like nothing ever imagined within the next decade.

 

[dn-101]

Chinese dickheads are teaching other dickheads how to control the web and how to diminish or steal domains.

And the biggest bullshitter, Rubber Dick, just dropped or sold for $1
hundreds of Asian names.

 

[Johnn]

Chinese dickheads are teaching other dickheads how to control the web and how to diminish or steal domains.

And the biggest bullshitter, Rubber Dick, just dropped or sold for $1
hundreds of Asian names.

Please be professional and watch your language.

Thanks,

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

I wouldn't be that optimistic.
Totalitarian governments will continue to exist as long as people allow themselves to be manipulated, of course that applies to any nation on Earth

Governments have enormous power over individuals. Just look at the USA, the flagship of global freedom. Most USA citizens are very unhappy with Obama, but we have to put up with him for another 3 years, minimum. Some countries do not even have regular or fair elections. In many of those cases, the people do not "allow themselves to be manipulated" --they are actively repressed by their government and they risk imprisonment or death for simply advocating democratic reforms.

 

[randomo]

Most USA citizens are very unhappy with Obama, but we have to put up with him for another 3 years, minimum.

The latest Gallup poll says: "The Dec. 11-13 USA Today/Gallup poll finds 56% of Americans saying they have a favorable view of the president, with 42% viewing him unfavorably." So it's untrue to say "most" of his constituents are "very unhappy" with him.

(I agree with your larger point, that "Governments have enormous power over individuals.")

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

Most of the Americans I know are unhappy with Obama.

 

[katherine]

Let's just say that the US, like most Western nations, has become increasingly authoritarian and has been moving closer to China, while China is moving closer to the US

 

[Sarcle]

Most of the Americans I know are unhappy with Obama.

Teabaggers?

I know what faux news says but "majority" is not the case here.

 

[Name]

Let's just say that the US, like most Western nations, has become increasingly authoritarian and has been moving closer to China, while China is moving closer to the US

Great Comments:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Wot]

Let's just say that the US, like most Western nations, has become increasingly authoritarian and has been moving closer to China, while China is moving closer to the US

We all meet in Germany- that's about half way I believe. :lol:

 

[snicksnack]

It depends, which way they are moving, might as well be the middle of the Pacific

 

[mattbodis]

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[Tenkk]

what matt?

 

[mediawizard]

You're spot on Matt, sad to say.

I've always suspected something to this effect for the longest of times.

The rich keep getting richer, till a revolution like you said, but again people are too complacent.

 

[Anthony Ng]

I am 21 years old. I hang out with people my age all the time. If someone that is 40-60 comes here and disagrees with me, then they do not know what they are talking about. My generation is DOOMED. There is NO WAY OUT unless a civil war happens.

I TOTALLY agreed (yes, agreeD) with you, when I was about 19 and the FSLN (Sandinistas) and Ian Curtis (Joy Division) were my heroes. (Google if it's necessary.) But that was more than 20 years ago, and I'm still here, so apparently there's a way out.

 

[randomo]

I TOTALLY agreed (yes, agreeD) with you, when I was about 19 and the FSLN (Sandinistas) and Ian Curtis (Joy Division) were my heroes. (Google if it's necessary.) But that was more than 20 years ago, and I'm still here, so apparently there's a way out.

Too bad Ian Curtis didn't feel there was a way out ....

 

[whitebark]

Glad I don't live in a country where the Prime Minister shuts down parliament to avoid an investigation into violations of the Geneva Conventions... oh wait I do.

 

[DTalk]

I am 21 years old. I hang out with people my age all the time. If someone that is 40-60 comes here and disagrees with me, then they do not know what they are talking about.

At 11, we know nothing...

At 21, we think we know everything...

At 31, we learn how little we know...

At 41, we feel we're getting somewhere...

At 51, we think we know everything, again...


...At 61...we realise that a hundred years from now - none of it will matter a toss to any of us, anyway...


It was ever thus...

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