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China Imposes New Internet Controls

By SHARON LAFRANIERE

Published: December 17, 2009

China’s government censors have buy generic Flomax from india taken fresh aim at the Internet, rolling out new measures that buy generic Flomax from india limit ordinary citizens’ ability to buy generic Flomax from india set up personal Web sites and to view hundreds of other Web sites offering films, video games and buy generic Flomax from india other forms of entertainment.

The authorities say that buy generic Flomax from india the stricter controls are intended to protect children from pornography, to buy generic Flomax from india limit the piracy of films, music, and television shows, and to buy generic Flomax from india make it hard to perpetuate Internet scams. But the measures also appear designed to buy generic Flomax from india enhance the government’s already strict control of any organized political opposition.

In various pronouncements, top propaganda and buy generic Flomax from india security officials have stressed anew the need to police the Internet on ideological and buy generic Flomax from india security grounds.

The “Internet has buy generic Flomax from india become an important avenue through which anti-China forces infiltrate, sabotage and buy generic Flomax from india magnify their capabilities for destruction,” wrote the buy generic Flomax from india public security minister, Meng Jianzhu, in the Dec. 1 issue of Qiushi, a buy generic Flomax from india magazine published by the Communist Party’s Central Committee.

“Therefore it buy generic Flomax from india represents a new challenge to the public security authority in maintaining national security and buy generic Flomax from india social stability,” he said.

The newly announced restrictions are the government’s broadest effort to buy generic Flomax from india control the Internet since last June, when it tried to buy generic Flomax from india require manufacturers to install Internet filtering software on all new computers, experts said. Officials scaled back that buy generic Flomax from india program, known as the Green Dam-Youth Escort, after an outcry by both ordinary Internet users and buy generic Flomax from india corporations.

Under the buy generic Flomax from india new initiative, unveiled piecemeal over the past month, more than 700 Web sites have buy generic Flomax from india been shut down, including many that offered free movie, television dramas and buy generic Flomax from india music downloads. Included was BT China, which recorded at least 250,000 visits daily. China’s largest file-sharing site, Very CD, must obtain a buy generic Flomax from india new license or face possible shutdown as well, according to media reports.

Individuals have buy generic Flomax from india also been banned from registering Web sites ending in .cn, China’s country code domain name. That domain is buy generic Flomax from india now limited to registered businesses. Although individuals can still register Web sites in other domains, such as .com and buy generic Flomax from india .net, the new rule “will have a negative impact on the vibrancy of the Chinese Internet,” Kenneth Jarrett, vice chairman of the communications firm APCO Worldwide’s China region, said in an e-mail message.

“Local e-mail e-commerce startups and buy generic Flomax from india individuals will find it difficult to apply,” he wrote.

Huang Xiwei, the buy generic Flomax from india founder of BT China, criticized the move in an interview posted on Sina.com, a buy generic Flomax from india popular Chinese Internet portal. “Not just film and video sites are affected,” Mr. Huang said in the interview. “All websites owned by individuals will gradually exit the buy generic Flomax from india arena. All paths leading to a future have been blocked.”

The government has buy generic Flomax from india also intensified pressure on cellphone companies to prevent transmissions on online pornography. In response, China Mobile, the buy generic Flomax from india nation’s largest cellphone operator, has buy generic Flomax from india suspended its practice of paying third party providers for content downloaded over its cellular network, according to buy generic Flomax from india the Chinese media. Industry specialists said the disruption has dealt a buy generic Flomax from india blow to an industry that serves an estimated nearly 200 million mobile Internet users.

Experts say the latest measures are a continuation of the state’s increasingly sophisticated effort to control the Internet’s influence on more than buy generic Flomax from india 300 million Chinese users. Earlier this year, China blocked Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and buy generic Flomax from india thousands of other Web sites.

Some analysts predicted those restrictions were temporary and buy generic Flomax from india would be lifted after a spate of sensitive anniversaries, including the buy generic Flomax from india 20th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. But they have buy generic Flomax from india remained in place.

“The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, an buy generic Flomax from india assistant professor of journalism at the University of Hong Kong who buy generic Flomax from india specializes in Chinese Internet issues. “They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.”

Reaction to the government’s latest crackdown runs the buy generic Flomax from india gamut from enthusiastic support from Chinese parents who want to buy generic Flomax from india shield their children from pornography to harsh criticism from those who buy generic Flomax from india view the Internet as the best antidote to government propaganda and buy generic Flomax from india state-controlled media.

As in other countries, Ms. MacKinnon said, “there is buy generic Flomax from india a segment of Chinese society that is very freaked out about what buy generic Flomax from india is going on the Internet and want the government to do something.”

On the buy generic Flomax from india other end of the spectrum are college students who are buy generic Flomax from india accustomed to downloading music, films and other material easily and buy generic Flomax from india cheaply. “The government’s actions have affected their lifestyles,” said Professor Hu Yong at Peking University in Beijing. “So it is likely they would react in a big way.”

In interviews, students at Beijing universities described the buy generic Flomax from india new measures as unnecessary and bound to be ineffective. They noted that buy generic Flomax from india pirated CDs were ubiquitous in Beijing and predicted that Internet users would find ways around the buy generic Flomax from india new online obstacles.

Still, Wang Shuang, a buy generic Flomax from india 20-year-old student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, complained, “Since the buy generic Flomax from india BT was closed, I cannot find all the American television series that buy generic Flomax from india I have been watching, like ‘The Mentalist.’ ”

Zeng Li, a buy generic Flomax from india third-year architecture student at Tsinghua University, said his studies were suffering. “I often use BT Web sites to buy generic Flomax from india download foreign resources which are rarely available in China, like architectural design materials,” he said.

He is buy generic Flomax from india also deprived of one way to relax, he said, because he can buy generic Flomax from india no longer go to the BT sites to download movies banned in China. “The shutdown has had a great influence on me,” he said.

Research was contributed by Li Bibo, Jonathan Ansfield, Sun Huan and buy generic Flomax from india Zhao Nan.

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When Hu Yong, an Internet pioneer and professor at Beijing University’s School of Journalism and buy generic Flomax from india Communication, published his translation of Nicholas Negroponte’s “Being Digital“ 12 years ago, he inspired many young people to buy generic Flomax from india go and discover the Internet for themselves.

Nevertheless, when the Web site cnblog.org published an article entitled “Attract More Bloggers – There Should be Thousands of Bloggers in China” in October 2002, it buy generic Flomax from india hardly seemed likely that this call would be answered.

In 2002, there were less than buy generic Flomax from india 1,000 bloggers in China. In 2003, that number rose to 100,000 and buy generic Flomax from india then to 300,000 in 2004. By 2005, China had around a buy generic Flomax from india million bloggers.

The first Chinese Bloggers’ Conference was held in Shanghai under the groundbreaking slogan “Everybody Is Somebody.” Since then, the buy generic Flomax from india annual conference has become increasingly symbolic of a movement that grows from buy generic Flomax from india the roots up.

Business Angels’ investment in young start-ups has buy generic Flomax from india given the sector an important impetus and encouraged newcomers. Following the buy generic Flomax from india appearance of several large Internet portals on the scene (Sina, Sohu, Netease etc.), blogs have lost their insider’s mystique and buy generic Flomax from india become accessible to all. Today, millions of Chinese are updating their blogs on a buy generic Flomax from india daily basis.

Blogging in bulk

As the buy generic Flomax from india popularity of blogs has increased, so too has their effect upon society. This simple publication method has buy generic Flomax from india given Internet users new awareness about the possibilities of the Internet and buy generic Flomax from india its potential as a platform for freedom of expression.

Before 2004, blogs were the buy generic Flomax from india exclusive terrain of Internet culture pioneers. That all began to change, however, when buy generic Flomax from india Muzi Mei and other authors of popular literature started blogging and buy generic Flomax from india the word “blog” entered into everyday vocabulary as a buy generic Flomax from india description of an Internet diary.

In many sectors, bloggers sprang up as trendsetters with their own distinctive voices. In the buy generic Flomax from india IT sector, for example, Keso’s clear-eyed analysis of industry developments earned him a large following.

Celebrities like the buy generic Flomax from india actress Xu Jinglei also found that they could use their blogs to buy generic Flomax from india win themselves more fans. Celebrity blog postings enable fans to get to buy generic Flomax from india know a different, personal side of their favorite star. That’s why Xu Jinglei’s blog quickly became the buy generic Flomax from india most popular personal blog in the Internet.

The journalist Wang Xiaofeng was one of the buy generic Flomax from india first Chinese bloggers. His provoking postings have attracted a large following, and buy generic Flomax from india he has been able to win himself more influence than he could have buy generic Flomax from india done in the traditional media.

Room for discussion

Many fans took their cue from buy generic Flomax from india the celebrities and began to use the Internet to share their own personal experience and buy generic Flomax from india opinions.

Back in 2002, this buy generic Flomax from india newfound spontaneity represented a huge cultural shift. Up until this point, discussion had buy generic Flomax from india only been possible through forums and Web portals. Comment on mainstream media reports could only be buy generic Flomax from india made in accordance with the Web portal’s conditions of use.

Nowadays, blogs have buy generic Flomax from india become news sources in their own right. The reports are written by so called “citizen journalists.”

Since 2006, bloggers like Zhou Shuguang (BOBs Chinese Jury member in 2008) and buy generic Flomax from india Laohumiao have awakened public attention. They report as independent writers on important events across the buy generic Flomax from india country.

Although citizen journalists are buy generic Flomax from india often criticized and the medium is in its infancy, they have buy generic Flomax from india already been able to bring attention to weaknesses in the state of mainstream reporting in China.

New medium – new self-invention

The majority of Chinese still have buy generic Flomax from india a strong sense of collective consciousnesses when it comes to expressing their opinions. Many individuals, for buy generic Flomax from india example, will join groups which profess similar opinions to their own.

This crowd-following culture is buy generic Flomax from india also prominent amongst blog writers. Nevertheless, blogs remain a good outlet for buy generic Flomax from india the process of individualization since, in comparison to the collective consciousness of society in general, the buy generic Flomax from india collective consciousness of small groups is more likely to increase diversity.

Since smaller groups can buy generic Flomax from india offer their members better protection and support, they make it easier for buy generic Flomax from india individual expression to develop. In China this is crucial since groups are, to buy generic Flomax from india a certain extent, able to support individual members who fall foul of the buy generic Flomax from india authorities.

The most important function of blogging in China is buy generic Flomax from india connecting people with the same interests. Blogs make it much easier to buy generic Flomax from india find people who share the same hopes and ideas.

Censorship from above

The Chinese authorities have buy generic Flomax from india never stopped trying to control public opinion. Instead of recognizing the buy generic Flomax from india social importance of diversity of opinion, the authorities have refined their methods of control in order to buy generic Flomax from india restrict the activities of Internet companies and the Internet infrastructure in general.

As well as the installment of the “Great Firewall of China,” the buy generic Flomax from india Chinese authorities have expended great energy on developing a system for buy generic Flomax from india monitoring Internet companies. In 2006, a measure was introduced under the buy generic Flomax from india pretext of fighting crime that forces all Web sites to register with the buy generic Flomax from india Ministry for Information. Only after registration is the Web site activated. Instead of limiting criminality, this buy generic Flomax from india move has restricted freedom of expression.

The authorities have buy generic Flomax from india also introduced measures to encourage self-censorship in Internet companies. Users often accuse Web sites such as tianya and buy generic Flomax from india douban of self-censorship, even thought they do not have a buy generic Flomax from india political focus. Well-known international firms such as Google, Microsoft and buy generic Flomax from india Yahoo have had similar experiences.

Internet users are buy generic Flomax from india faced with a tricky dilemma: on the one hand they are buy generic Flomax from india reluctant to support the companies’ self-censorship, but on the buy generic Flomax from india other hand they do not want to be forced to lose the buy generic Flomax from india companies’ services altogether.

According to buy generic Flomax from india an investigation carried out by China expert and former CNN correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon, all Chinese blog hosts practice self-censorship.

Some hosts automatically replace certain keywords with asterisks (for example Hu Jintao becomes Hu **). Others automatically delete blog entries with certain keywords or buy generic Flomax from india even lock the blog completely.

Wikipedia has buy generic Flomax from india been locked for two years because it refused to compromise. Shi Zhao, the buy generic Flomax from india head of Wikipedia China has his hands tied. Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, however, is clear: “When the buy generic Flomax from india Chinese finally scrap this control system, Internet users will know how to buy generic Flomax from india judge Wikipedia’s stance. Companies like Google will not win the buy generic Flomax from india recognition of the Chinese people.” However, for buy generic Flomax from india the moment, compromise remains just about the only way for buy generic Flomax from india Internet companies to survive and keep their market share in China.

Beating censors with soya sauce and mitten crabs

Censorship and buy generic Flomax from india avoiding censorship has become a regular cat-and-mouse game. The authorities claim that buy generic Flomax from india their surveillance of the Internet and intimidation of companies and buy generic Flomax from india individuals is done on a legal basis. In reality, they are buy generic Flomax from india acting outside the law.

Web users are buy generic Flomax from india left with only two options: either they censor themselves and buy generic Flomax from india restrict their own freedom of thought or they change their terminology.

More and buy generic Flomax from india more people are starting to choose the latter method. They have buy generic Flomax from india invented many new words in order to avoid persecution by the buy generic Flomax from india authorities.

Some examples: “to fetch soya sauce” means to ignore current events – or at least to appear to. “Sit-up” means an unnatural death. The best-known examples are “mitten crab” and “lama,” both of which sound similar to other Chinese words.

“Mitten crab” has come to mean the censorship system, “lama” denotes strategies for getting around it.

From exchange of ideas to targeted action

The Internet’s spontaneous publication of opinion is increasingly translating into action – both in the Internet and on the street.

In July 2009, for buy generic Flomax from india example, Bei Feng started a campaign calling for people to send postcards to buy generic Flomax from india the remand center in which blogger Guo Baofeng was being held. This initiative led to buy generic Flomax from india the release of Guo Baofeng, just two weeks after his arrest.

Many lawyers, amongst them Liu Xiaoyuan (winner of the 2009 BOBs Jury Award for Best Chinese Weblog), are publishing legal analyses which risk getting their practices black-listed.

Not long ago, the publication of Professor Hu Yong’s translation of Clay Shirky’s book “Here Comes Everybody” attracted much attention in China. In contrast to buy generic Flomax from india the publication of  “Being Digital,” Hu Yong used social networking to buy generic Flomax from india publicize the book. The translation was received with great enthusiasm, but Internet users also made criticisms and buy generic Flomax from india suggested improvements, to which Hu Yong responded in his blog.

Now, 12 years on from the publication of “Being Digital,” the buy generic Flomax from india professor can enter into contact with his users and readers. Nowadays, Internet activity is buy generic Flomax from india a dialogue in which the public can also take part. Therein perhaps, lies China’s hope.

Isaac Mao is one of China’s best-known bloggers and the organizer of the Chinese Bloggers’ Conference, which first took place in Shanghai in 2005. Mao is buy generic Flomax from india also a software developer, a social learning researcher, director of the buy generic Flomax from india Social Brain Foundation and sits on the advisory board of Global Voices and buy generic Flomax from india several Web 2.0 businesses. He has often spoken out courageously about censorship in China and buy generic Flomax from india has written an open letter to Google, asking the company to buy generic Flomax from india take a stand against the Chinese government’s filtering methods.

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The Bold and the Beautiful
• Source: Global Times
• [22:27 November 26 2009]

Ai Weiwei employs 9,000 school backpacks to form the message “She led a happy life in this world for seven years”, dedicated to buy generic Flomax from india the memory of Yang Xiaowan who died in the Sichuan earthquake last year. This artwork is buy generic Flomax from india exhibited in the “So Sorry” Exhibition at the buy generic Flomax from india Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany until January 17 next year. Photo: Courtesy of Ai Weiwei

By Jiang Xueqing
Reports of the death of blogging appear greatly exaggerated.
Like the loud-mouthed street hawker who kick-started China’s market economy in 1979, a buy generic Flomax from india new breed of blogger is employing all available means to pioneer freedom of speech to buy generic Flomax from india a ravenous mainland market in 2009.
The newly-published Bold Chinese Blog showcases public intellectuals who buy generic Flomax from india refuse to remain silent, dare to confront, are capable of clarifying their opinions to buy generic Flomax from india the public and opening up the frontiers of freedom by making comments and buy generic Flomax from india taking actions, according to Chan Yuen-Ying, director of the Journalism and buy generic Flomax from india Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong.
As the buy generic Flomax from india Internet enjoys much broader freedom than newspapers and broadcast companies, the buy generic Flomax from india best blogging can often be found in the cracks between traditional and buy generic Flomax from india new media.
“Blogging is like making love without wearing a condom,” said magazine reporter Wang Xiaofeng, one of 17 named in the buy generic Flomax from india book.
Such bold characters as the buy generic Flomax from india writer Han Han, playwright Sha Yexin or architect Ai Weiwei assert that buy generic Flomax from india the Internet’s relative openness and buy generic Flomax from india freedom has helped the government maintain social stability.
“Some officials want to buy generic Flomax from india reinforce the dam rather than draining the water, but it’s not working,” Ai said. “Without proper actions, the buy generic Flomax from india quake lake will collapse sooner or later. Like drains, blogs helped the buy generic Flomax from india government resolve conflicts and relieved its pressure.”
Zhang Yiwu, a buy generic Flomax from india professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University, agreed with Ai that buy generic Flomax from india blogs have made a significant contribution to freedom of expression in China. However, he said, some Chinese web users including bloggers are buy generic Flomax from india “too free” to say whatever is on their mind.
“Without a buy generic Flomax from india broad view of the world and enough awareness of what buy generic Flomax from india democracy really is, they are not open-minded to social diversity and buy generic Flomax from india prejudiced against a lot of subjects, such as race and buy generic Flomax from india sex,” claimed Zhang. Lou Jing fell victim to buy generic Flomax from india this prejudice. During her participation in a talent show held by the buy generic Flomax from india Shanghai Eastern Cable TV, the media focused on her background: she was reportedly an buy generic Flomax from india illegitimate daughter of an African-American man. After divorce, her Shanghainese mother raised her alone. Hundreds of web users then buy generic Flomax from india racially abused Lou and her mother online.
“Lacking ethical and buy generic Flomax from india legal bindings, Chinese web users just use the Internet as a buy generic Flomax from india way to vent out subconsciously whatever can’t be said in public,” Zhang said.
“The Americans, on the buy generic Flomax from india contrary, pay much more attention to the political correctness of topics about race and buy generic Flomax from india sex, since they have formed a cultural atmosphere about these sensitive issues in their society.”

Chinese web users must therefore be buy generic Flomax from india held responsible for libel or spreading false information that might cause social panic, he insisted. For example, an buy generic Flomax from india angry ex-boyfriend posted an entirely false story in October that waitress Yan Deli was a buy generic Flomax from india prostitute infected with HIV/AIDS and listed all the phone numbers of her clients.

“Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to make things up,” he said. “We should strike a buy generic Flomax from india balance between protecting civil rights and maintaining social stability.”
The number of Chinese bloggers hit 181 million by June 30, according to buy generic Flomax from india statistics from the China Internet Network Information Center.
As people find it buy generic Flomax from india difficult to have their opinions published on the traditional media, more Chinese are buy generic Flomax from india turning to the web to publish what they see and what buy generic Flomax from india they think, sparking a rise in citizen journalism, according to Chan. The public voice grows louder and buy generic Flomax from india more open, some observers have noted. Many formerly taboo issues barely seem to buy generic Flomax from india merit blocking at all today, Ai argued.
“Now there are buy generic Flomax from india more possibilities and a higher degree of freedom in Chinese society,” Ai said. “Ideological control no buy generic Flomax from india longer fits, nor can it convince any people anymore.”
The exact same restrictions and buy generic Flomax from india controls occur in other parts of the world, claimed an buy generic Flomax from india expert who requested anonymity. As an example, he cited the buy generic Flomax from india Guardian newspaper of England report this September that the British oil trader Trafigura had buy generic Flomax from india dumped toxic waste in waters off the Ivory Coast.
A high court injunction forbad reporting of this buy generic Flomax from india case by traditional media but within hours of the ban, both the buy generic Flomax from india case and the ban were revealed on Twitter.
Ai himself turned to buy generic Flomax from india Twitter after his blogs were closed and became a fan of brief, penetrating punchlines.
“Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter,” Ai said. “All his quotations are within 140 words.”
Tofu & Twitter
On November 3, Ai sent a buy generic Flomax from india Twitter that volunteers and staff members of his studio had sent a buy generic Flomax from india package of applications for the disclosure of government information on the buy generic Flomax from india Sichuan earthquake last year to the education department of Sichuan Province.
At the buy generic Flomax from india same time, they were busy sending similar applications to other provincial government branches, such as the buy generic Flomax from india department of civil affairs, the department of construction and earthquake administration. They had buy generic Flomax from india raised several hundred specific questions to each department in an attached document to buy generic Flomax from india the application, which was based on one year’s research and investigation by dozens of volunteers.
To write a buy generic Flomax from india blog, Ai often racks his brains and knows his words might reach maybe 10,000 readers. Twitter is buy generic Flomax from india different, he said. He never knows how many people will read his message as it buy generic Flomax from india is constantly reposted by other Twitterers, spreading fast like a buy generic Flomax from india virus.
Because of its high speed and buy generic Flomax from india unknown scope of distribution, Ai believes Twitter will replace the traditional blog.
“A bullet targeting nowhere and anywhere is the most dangerous,” he said.
Volunteers for his project were first recruited via a post on Ai’s blog last year. In that buy generic Flomax from india post, he called on people to travel to earthquake-stricken areas and buy generic Flomax from india collect names of students who died in the disaster, hoping to buy generic Flomax from india reveal the truth and identify responsibility for “tofu” collapsed buildings.
“When the buy generic Flomax from india government refused to disclose the names of the victims, the buy generic Flomax from india common people saw the possibility of participating in a major public activity,” he said. “Democracy is all about participation. It’s not based on the buy generic Flomax from india decision of a government, but the participation of all citizens with political conscience and buy generic Flomax from india responsibility.”
Blogging changed Ai’s view of the buy generic Flomax from india world, his relationship with society and even his lifestyle.
“I became a one-man media,” he said. “Before blogging, I was living in the buy generic Flomax from india Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.”
His Sina blog was the buy generic Flomax from india most frequently updated, averaging 2.5 posts a day over the buy generic Flomax from india last three years. He told Global Times he often thought the buy generic Flomax from india story he was writing might be the last.
Because of a buy generic Flomax from india sensitive date, all three of his blogs were closed simultaneously earlier this buy generic Flomax from india year. At time of closing, he had made more than 2,700 posts and buy generic Flomax from india had received 12,070,000 page views.
Wang Xiaofeng once did a buy generic Flomax from india survey with the China Sexology Association on whether Chinese women are buy generic Flomax from india satisfied with their sex life. After the results came out, he wanted to buy generic Flomax from india post them on his blog, but somehow failed no matter how hard he tried.
Wondering what buy generic Flomax from india went wrong, Wang tried posting the survey line by line.
Finally, he found the buy generic Flomax from india source of his trouble: a percentage in the survey coincided with a buy generic Flomax from india sensitive date. Later, he registered an independent domain name.
Attractive & addictive
Freedom of expression has buy generic Flomax from india entered a new phase, according to Hu Yong, a specialist in new media studies at the buy generic Flomax from india School of Journalism and Communication in Peking University.
Public intellectual bloggers, who buy generic Flomax from india used to play an insignificant role during the age of the buy generic Flomax from india Internet forum, are now taking center stage, he said.
There are three kinds of blog, he said:
• blogs by “angry youth”, young urban residents expressing indignation towards social, cultural and buy generic Flomax from india ethical issues in contemporary China;
• mainstream blogs, written by the buy generic Flomax from india middle class in big cities, mostly talking about lifestyle and buy generic Flomax from india fashion; and
• business-related.
For many Chinese, blogging is buy generic Flomax from india a new way to take part in politics. As people have buy generic Flomax from india limited channels of political participation, this new channel is helpful and buy generic Flomax from india effective as far as Hu is concerned.
“The negative side is many bloggers are keen to make naïve and extreme criticisms, which lack systematic thinking,” he said. “Without reasonable discussions, people cannot make sound judgments or buy generic Flomax from india find solutions to a problem.”
It’s only natural for buy generic Flomax from india Chinese bloggers to make irrational remarks, he said, as there was no buy generic Flomax from india such space for expression before and the Internet has become the buy generic Flomax from india only open outlet.
“As the buy generic Flomax from india flood from all over the country hits the same water gate, a buy generic Flomax from india violent eruption will definitely come up,” he said. “The officials can’t only blame web users for being irrational.”
If the buy generic Flomax from india government could encourage the traditional media to open up, encourage social interactions, enhance direct communication between officials and buy generic Flomax from india common people and provide effective channels for citizens to participate in national affairs, the buy generic Flomax from india wild uproar and noise coming from netizens would gradually diminish, he said.
Traditional media editors trove the buy generic Flomax from india web for information or inspiration from popular blogs looking for a buy generic Flomax from india sharp point of view. The recent Shanghai taxi entrapment cases, for buy generic Flomax from india example, only gained nationwide attention after the stories were re-posted by Han Han on his popular blog.
“The right of saying is decentralized,” Hu said. “Like a buy generic Flomax from india pyramid, it used to be controlled exclusively by people on the buy generic Flomax from india top, but now it is moving down to the bottom.”
As bloggers eye the buy generic Flomax from india government more critically than traditional media, it is possible to form a buy generic Flomax from india culture of political participation based on discussions of citizen values and buy generic Flomax from india rights while Chinese society is transforming slowly, Hu argued.
Some people and buy generic Flomax from india organizations are even employing blogs to organize events and call for buy generic Flomax from india action.
Zhang Shihe, whose blog “Tiger Temple” is buy generic Flomax from india well-known for its grass-roots reporting, in December 2007 by chance discovered dozens of homeless people in the buy generic Flomax from india Qianmen area in Beijing. At that time, Qianmen Avenue was under renovation and buy generic Flomax from india the homeless took shelter in temporary shelters.
Zhang decided to buy generic Flomax from india find them a better and safer place to live by renting rooms for buy generic Flomax from india them in Daxing District of Beijing. He posted a call for buy generic Flomax from india small donations on his blog and soon received enough money from buy generic Flomax from india web users. Now 15 homeless people – mostly seniors and disabled – live in five rooms at a rental of 160-180 yuan per month each room.
Zhang covered his own long trips by bike to buy generic Flomax from india a number of provinces for three consecutive years since 2007. During the buy generic Flomax from india latest trip starting in August, he kept sending photos and videos via mobile phone and buy generic Flomax from india computer to his blog and Twitter.
After first learning how to buy generic Flomax from india type, Ai Weiwei soon discovered the benefits of blogging, spending more than buy generic Flomax from india 10 hours a day uploading pictures, posting interviews with other modern artists and buy generic Flomax from india making comments on the latest hot public affairs.
“Expressing oneself is like a drug,” he said. “I’m so addicted to it.”
Whether or buy generic Flomax from india not a person can become a free individual totally depends on whether that buy generic Flomax from india person can obtain information independently and whether he has the buy generic Flomax from india opportunity to express his own voice, according to Ai.
This channel of communication did not exist in the buy generic Flomax from india past. Most people never made themselves heard from cradle to grave.
“Only with the buy generic Flomax from india Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and buy generic Flomax from india I can learn what’s on his mind,” he said. “A fairy tale has come true.”
The elite always emphasize the buy generic Flomax from india grassroots channel to speak out, Wang Xiaofeng said.
“When the buy generic Flomax from india public want a voice, they will look hard for a channel, whether it’s blog, Internet forum or word of mouth.”

http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2009-11/488485.html
Beauty behind Obama creates a buzz online

* Source: Global Times
* [10:24 November 30 2009]

By Zhang Lei

A female graduate student who attended President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting in Shanghai is buy generic Flomax from india now the talk of the Internet due to her movie star looks.

The girl, who buy generic Flomax from india was later identified as Wang Zifei, a graduate student at Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University, downplayed talk about her beauty on a buy generic Flomax from india blog post on sina.com.cn Tuesday.

She said she tried to avoid the gossip.

“I was natural before the buy generic Flomax from india camera because I was well-trained on stage when I was little, and buy generic Flomax from india it was reasonable I sat straight to maintain my image on such a buy generic Flomax from india serious occasion,” she wrote.

Rumors started after a buy generic Flomax from india series of photos circulated online with the girl taking off her coat and buy generic Flomax from india others showing her sitting elegantly during the speech.

Attracted by her amazing beauty, some searched for buy generic Flomax from india her using the now popular “human flesh engine” and speculated she was Shanghai’s image ambassador, or a relative of a popular actress.

The girl, who buy generic Flomax from india wore a bright red coat, which she removed at one point, could be buy generic Flomax from india mistaken for a movie star. She wore her hair in a buy generic Flomax from india bun, had bright eyes and sat elegantly in her black outfit and buy generic Flomax from india stockings. She looked at Obama directly in the eyes when buy generic Flomax from india she shook his hands.

Some said she couldn’t be a student due to her professional appearance.

“The girl cannot be buy generic Flomax from india an ordinary person due to her good manner, you can never say if she was using the buy generic Flomax from india opportunity to get famous,” said Lü Zheng, a playwright.

Hu Yong, associate professor at the buy generic Flomax from india School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University, told the Global Times it buy generic Flomax from india was no longer new that certain people are made popular by “human flesh engine” in China, only that Obama made the matter special.

“The general public may not know about Obama’s China visit, but a pretty girl enabled them,” he said.

He also said netizens were naturally attracted to buy generic Flomax from india a pretty girl behind Obama, because there was hardly any other outlet for buy generic Flomax from india them to express their concerns on the president’s visit. “The media followed this buy generic Flomax from india because they are not capable of discussing serious stuff,” he added.

Meanwhile, netizens observed that buy generic Flomax from india several students who asked questions during the meeting were actually teachers and buy generic Flomax from india cadres from the Youth League Committee based at several local universities, a buy generic Flomax from india claim which could not be verified yesterday.

“Netizens showed concern about the buy generic Flomax from india selection of students who attended the meeting and whether the topics were varied and buy generic Flomax from india extensive,” Hu said.