Blimey!I met a Chinese girl who has been over here for 6 years at a party a couple of months back.
Because of my job and her nationality, we started talking about the Google China situation (not immediately, you understand - I don't meet people and immediately set off on an SEO tirade) and I asked how she felt about the sensorship in her country.
She didn't understand what I meant, intimating that she didn't believe that there was any censorship at all.
I showed her the google image results for Tiananmen square in Google.co.uk and in Google.cn and asked her what she thought.
She genuinely believed that in this country we were controlled by propaganda, rather than her country controlling through censorship.
I have no absolute way of knowing who is correct, but it interested me.
(Because of my job and her nationality, we started talking about the Google China situation (not immediately, you understand - I don't meet people and immediately set off on an SEO tirade) and I asked how she felt about the sensorship in her country.
She didn't understand what I meant, intimating that she didn't believe that there was any censorship at all.
I showed her the google image results for Tiananmen square in Google.co.uk and in Google.cn and asked her what she thought.
She genuinely believed that in this country we were controlled by propaganda, rather than her country controlling through censorship.
I have no absolute way of knowing who is correct, but it interested me.
LordManley twitter.com/LordManley,
Sat 18 Nov 2006, 19:25,
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i know a chap who grew up in soviet russiahe finds it difficult to read posters and signs, because he intuitively expects them to be propaganda posters and therefore ignorable. weird, eh?
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spacefish bong!,
Sat 18 Nov 2006, 19:56,
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