Even though my blog is banned in China, I hardly ever write anything about them at all. With the summer Olympics coming up, though, I thought I might mention it. We will not be watching the Olympics in my house. We like the Olympics, but I don’t feel that advertisers should be giving their money to aid in the broadcast from a country that does not allow its citizens to be free. Besides the political turmoil in Tibet, we cannot forget the severe avalanches and mudslides that happened this winter. How many Chinese citizens were allowed to die because the government was too proud to ask for help? How many children starved to death because the bureaucracy of China is so inept and the technology is so backward that the roads could not be cleared to deliver food to remote villages? The world sees of China only what China wants us to see, and as we have learned in our own country, when there is no transparency, government corruption runs rampant. So, this summer, my family will be ignoring China, because they are not worth our attention.
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Banned in China? Generically through wordpress or specifically? and how can one find that information out? That is worthy of a headline at the top of the Blog……
This whole mess with China could have been avoided if the Olympics were used as a reward for reform, rather than an encouragement towards it. It’d be like a paycheck to a hardworker, rather than a credit-card cash withdrawl by a bad risk cardholder.
I was banned specifically because of an Anti-China post I wrote years ago, but I can’t remember the website. You plug in your URL and it tells you if your site can be seen or not.
That’s really cool. You should headline it.
Join the club. I guarantee you I’m banned in China as well.
We won’t be watching the Olympics either. The folks in the Olympic Committee are morons for having the games there in the first place.