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By the Betanews Staff | Published March 6, 2006, 1:48 PM
The Chinese government is attempting to boost public interest and support of its Parliament by permitting members to set up Web logs to communicate with citizens. While so far only eight of some 5,000-plus delegated have been approved to post, many more have applied. The state-owned People's Daily newspaper runs the blog site.
While most entries are not surprisingly pro-party, some seem to air some of the discontents of China's 1.3 billion inhabitants. Representative Pan Shiyi was quoted in the Associated Press as writing about how he disagrees with the new city construction underway in the country that separates the rich and the poor, and promised to focus on it during his term. The blogs, in Chinese, can be found at blog.people.com.cn.
"While so far only eight of some 5,000-plus delegated have been approved to post"
they have to be approved to blog so its really not going to be their opinions will it?
more like the gov practicing sock puppet displays?
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|Will this Blogs be in the Chinese Internet or in the Rest-Of-The-World Internet ???
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Oh! Wait! What's that? They weren't really setting up a whole different Internet???
Damn!!! Nevermind!
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|Why is this news?
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|Because there's a great big world out there....and some of us actually live in it.
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|What's the use. The State will still monitor and censor what can be written. All the Representatives if not actively propraganding will be walking on a line so fine as to be nonexisting.
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|show purpose only.. move along move along
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|mm progress, heard from my teacher that many in china hook up their modems to a satalite phone so censors are weak and feable attempts at control. so no more dissing companies who just want access to the billion some people.
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