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Confucius Confusion
October 29th, 2009If there is anything tastier than irony or redheads, I haven’t licked it.
Take the Chinese government. Perennially apoplectic about controlling the masses, the People’s Republic of China central government routinely censors content of all forms – books, television, movies, speech, idle chatter, romantic whispers (”Your eyes are like fluttering posters of Mao”). It would shock nobody to discover that they regulate what a person can say in their sleep.
They heavily censor the web. No doubt this page will never appear behind the Great Firewall of China. If you have doubts of their voracity for information sterilization, search the phrase “Tiananmen Square massacre” on any Chinese controlled search engine and see how few mention the June 4th body count (upwards of 2,600 according to the Chinese Red Cross).
Being short on redheads the Chinese government had to rely on irony for my entertainment. Seems that the Communist Cadre are cackling about Google temporarily blocking access to the Chinese web site People.com.cn, which is managed by the People’s Daily, which is owned by the Chinese government, which makes this all completely absurd.
In short, the Chinese government is complaining that somebody censored them.
Ironic barely begins to describe both the Chinese government’s attitude and the power over it held by the wide open Internet. Sure, it is fairly easy to raise the ire of the collected pointed heads within Great Hall of the People. After all, tiny brains are easily manipulated. But to provoke in such a way as to cause them to utter openly and obviously self-contradictory concepts takes talent and smarts, which describes Google.
And it appears Google did absolutely nothing, which double the irony index.
As a service to all people, Google masks results to sites that have been infected with malware. This policing action keeps less sophisticated web riders from harming themselves and their computer by inadvertently downloading malicious code. Since China is second only to Russia as sources for malware distribution (mainly used to create spam generating zombie computers), it is natural that servers inside of China are routinely infected.
Including many owned by the government.
Odds are The People’s computers were infected, at least for a time, and Google’s robotic systems did what they did for any infected source – they automagically blocked it. Yet the People’s Retards assumed someone had censored them. I wish Google had done it on purpose as the alleged leaders in the PRC need to know they are not really in control any more.









