I don't think China wants all of its people on the net.

Once enough of them realise just how they are being repressed under a totalitarian government they might want to do something about it.

It might be easy to mow down a few thousand with tanks and machineguns in Tianamin Square and hide the bodies but try stopping a real revolution of the people.

I feel sorry for the millions of Chinese who clearly deserve a better life.

What a subversive guy !!!

Internet takeup in China might produce the same effect that the introduction of steel axes had on stone aged men ... purely from an anthropological perspective.


It doesn't seem to matter how many internet users there are in a country, but the percentage of the population which is online. By that mark, China would be obliterated.

I didn't know that the entire EU was a country? Does that mean the entire North America is a country too? Or Asia for that matter?

Nope, nice try though.

February was Magee's last month as editor of The INQUIRER. Chiner wert expecting another cultural revolution in lieu (lao?) of the ensuing mahem (cough) mahem o'upheaval.
It's good he set them straight in old ShangHai, all 221 millyuan.

No comparison with the number of Internet users in the entire EU. Maybe the authors of the article thought that one shock per day is enough, eh?