<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Prior Restraint* is the leading cause of ignorance and lack of progress in International, National, Local, home and personal activity. It infects business, creativity, human rights and peace. </DIV>
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<DIV>When doing business, may I say especially in Asia, one must not take a statement of restriction as meaning more or less than, "the burden is on you, to show the benefits of your desired action or our inaction". Public statements and "face" are like the western politicians' "lets float it out there and see what happens" -- while maintaining deniability.</DIV>
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<DIV>Of course what do I know?</DIV>
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<DIV>*I use this term in a manner related to the human condition and will. The "I can't" or the "I am not good enough" syndromes. But mostly it is that thought prior to taking action that reviews "will it work, is it worth it, can it be done and worst of all "what if I fail?"</DIV>
<DIV>Legally: <A href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/09.html">http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/09.html</A></DIV>
<DIV>Philosophically: <A href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=5F4DB6E45D154BDC949C07A437CFE95D?contentType=Book&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1757266">http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=5F4DB6E45D154BDC949C07A437CFE95D?contentType=Book&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1757266</A></DIV>
<DIV>Please note that as a avid copywriter I respect the money end of this link</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 7/2/09, Rebecca MacKinnon <I><rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] China backs down on filter?<BR>To: "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa@gmail.com><BR>Cc: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "Ginger Paque" <gpaque@gmail.com><BR>Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:03 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv1104198315>My take on the whole thing is here: <BR><A href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/07/green-dam-is-breachednow-what.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/07/green-dam-is-breachednow-what.html</A><BR><BR>Rebecca<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Fouad Bajwa <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=fouadbajwa@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">For details on what's recently been taken care of: <A href="http://ciirc.china.cn/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://ciirc.china.cn/</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Rebecca MacKinnon<BR>Open Society Fellow | Co-founder, GlobalVoicesOnline.org<BR>Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong<BR><BR>UK: +44-7759-863406<BR>USA: +1-617-939-3493<BR>HK: +852-6334-8843<BR>Mainland China: +86-13710820364<BR><BR>E-mail: <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com">rebecca.mackinnon@gmail.com</A><BR>Blog: <A href="http://rconversation.blogs.com/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://RConversation.blogs.com</A><BR>Twitter: <A href="http://twitter.com/rmack" target=_blank
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