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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by junko on Thursday July 21, 2016 @01:08PM (#12138318)
>>is laughable

Touchwood. Back in early 2000s, a lot of people laughed at the idea of Mandarin being taught in schools.

>>Great things will come from bringing another 1 billion humans online and contributing to the world marketplace

They don't have to go global. Jack Ma: “eBay May Be a Shark in the Ocean, But I Am a Crocodile in the Yangtze River.”

Anyway an extra one billion internet users don't necessarily mean great things ... commercially maybe it gets a lot greyer in other areas like social.

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Re:China is challenging the idea that censorship thwarts onl... by Chathamization on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:21PM (#12138863)
> Touchwood. Back in early 2000s, a lot of people laughed at the idea of Mandarin being taught in schools.

I don't think that's actually true. In fact, I remember in the early 2000s a lot of people were telling students that they should learn Mandarin because it would be easy for them to find a good paying job if they did. For the most part, this seems to have been very poor advice.

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