[ NNSquad ] Pot Calling Kettle Black: China's Report on U.S. Human Rights, Internet, etc.

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Pot Calling Kettle Black: China's Report on U.S. Human Rights, Internet, etc.

http://j.mp/eJjhMI  (ars technica)

     Upset over the US State Department's annual human rights report, China
     publishes a report of its own on various US ills. This year, it calls
     attention to America's border laptop searches, its attitude toward
     WikiLeaks, and the prevalence of online pornography.

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While much of what the Chinese report states is clearly accurate, the
hypocrisy of China issuing such a report, with its own vast human
rights abuses and Internet censorship system, is still striking.

Of course, with U.S. legislators and associated minions (and
lobbyists) busily planning for the imposition of vast new censorship
and information control regimes on search engines and others here,
this is a situation where China may soon want to pat the U.S. on the
back for "seeing the light" and imposing Chinese-style thought
control.

--Lauren--
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