[governance] China backs down on filter?

[Eric Dierker]

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. 
 
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.
 
Of course what do I know?
 
*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?"
Legally: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/09.html
Philosophically: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=5F4DB6E45D154BDC949C07A437CFE95D?contentType=Book&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1757266
Please note that as a avid copywriter I respect the money end of this link


--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] China backs down on filter?
To: "Fouad Bajwa" <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Ginger Paque" <gpaque at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:03 AM


My take on the whole thing is here: 
http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/07/green-dam-is-breachednow-what.html

Rebecca


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

For details on what's recently been taken care of: http://ciirc.china.cn/



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