Comments on: Why bother? http://granitestudio.org/2007/06/27/why-bother/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Humanaught http://granitestudio.org/2007/06/27/why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-826 The Humanaught Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:07:00 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=291#comment-826 It's such a tired issue, yet nothing affects us in-China netizens more (particularly us bloggers), and so it needs discussion.<br/><br/>I do think that with loads of talk about it, eventually that buzz will filter up and get some recognition... and that recognition might be the straw... <br/><br/>Or at least one could hope. The world is largely run by good PR... and that might help things for the better - despite what recent months have shown. It’s such a tired issue, yet nothing affects us in-China netizens more (particularly us bloggers), and so it needs discussion.

I do think that with loads of talk about it, eventually that buzz will filter up and get some recognition… and that recognition might be the straw…

Or at least one could hope. The world is largely run by good PR… and that might help things for the better – despite what recent months have shown.

]]> By: 無名 - wu ming http://granitestudio.org/2007/06/27/why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-820 無名 - wu ming Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:29:00 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=291#comment-820 hell. yes.<br/><br/>if i were a more erudite person, i'd throw in that classical anecdote about the king who wanted to stop up the mouths of the people, and was told by an advisor that the fallout would be as catastropic as damming up a river with no outlet, but i cannot for the life of me remember where i read it, or who wrote it.<br/><br/>at any rate, the chinese government should be more concerned about what its citizens are saying on the streets of china about how they're running the country. foreign blogs are the least of their worries (ditto for the bush administration and <i>people's daily</i>) hell. yes.

if i were a more erudite person, i’d throw in that classical anecdote about the king who wanted to stop up the mouths of the people, and was told by an advisor that the fallout would be as catastropic as damming up a river with no outlet, but i cannot for the life of me remember where i read it, or who wrote it.

at any rate, the chinese government should be more concerned about what its citizens are saying on the streets of china about how they’re running the country. foreign blogs are the least of their worries (ditto for the bush administration and people’s daily)

]]> By: Kevin S. http://granitestudio.org/2007/06/27/why-bother/comment-page-1/#comment-819 Kevin S. Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:04:00 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=291#comment-819 I totally agree. Why bother? So few Chinese read foreign blogs or any foreign website period that it seems like a complete waste of time to bother in the first place. On the other hand, I don't imagine the Chinese government gives a rat's ass about us foreigners and those few Chinese in China who are inconvenienced by the censorship of foreign sites. I totally agree. Why bother? So few Chinese read foreign blogs or any foreign website period that it seems like a complete waste of time to bother in the first place. On the other hand, I don’t imagine the Chinese government gives a rat’s ass about us foreigners and those few Chinese in China who are inconvenienced by the censorship of foreign sites.

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