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Re:China bans Youtube by dinkumthinkum on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @12:08PM (#531975)
You've got to be kidding. Stifling another outlet for free speech is just to get a few more widgets produced per day right? Of course it has nothing to do with political fear, even though every other instance of such an action did. Right, you can't be serious.
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Re:China bans Youtube by marksutherland on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @12:31PM (#532007)
It can't be both? The percieved benefits of protectionism, combined with the squelching of unsavoury opinions and other content must be very appealing.
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Re:China bans Youtube by dinkumthinkum on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @05:41PM (#532474)
I'm not sure that applies here. Protectionism is not about keeping people from goofing off at work.
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Re:China bans Youtube by marksutherland on Thursday March 26, 2009 @08:04AM (#533322)
doh, I missed the root comment (threading isn't very obvious in links).
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Re:China bans Youtube by petercooper on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @01:15PM (#532089)
Yes, I was kidding. I just didn't realize the ;-) on the end was necessary this time because it was such a ridiculous comment ;-)
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Re:China bans Youtube by dinkumthinkum on Wednesday March 25, 2009 @05:40PM (#532471)
Sorry. :) You wouldn't believe how many morons actually think like that when it comes to China though.
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