China

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"The Internet is as much a tool for control, surveillance and commercial considerations as it is for empowerment"

Roger Creemers, professor Leiden University and authority of the Internet in China


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-scary-lesson-to-the-world-censoring-the-internet-works/2016/05/23/413afe78-fff3-11e5-8bb1-f124a43f84dc_story.html

[jk]

Re: China's Scary Lesson- Censoring The Internet Works

i'm starting to think that the political and economic differences between the u.s. and china are differences of degree, not differences of kind.

[touchring]

Re: China's Scary Lesson- Censoring The Internet Works

i'm starting to think that the political and economic differences between the u.s. and china are differences of degree, not differences of kind.

This is the consequence of world trade where each party influences the other gradually. While the Chinese government has become less corrupted and more liberal, the US government has become more autocratic and more corrupted.

[jk]

Re: China's Scary Lesson- Censoring The Internet Works

This is the consequence of world trade where each party influences the other gradually. While the Chinese government has become less corrupted and more liberal, the US government has become more autocratic and more corrupted.

i agree with observations about those trends, and am intrigued by your theory that trade causes political convergence. want to speculate about a mechanism for that?