shouting loudly

the great firewall of the US

Rebecca MacKinnon reports about possible U.S. Military censorship, and warns us for the slippery slope we have started.

A couple of thousand years ago, the Chinese built the Great Wall to keep the hordes of barbarians out. Fast forward to now: the Chinese have been building the Great Firewall to keep ‘unhealthy’ information out.

What is the US learning from the ancient and wise Chinese? First, we are now also building our own Great Wall to prevent the hordes of Mexicans from invading the US. And the second great lesson the US is learning from the Chinese: the US military is also building its Great Firewall (now still reiatively tiny, but that is what a slippery slope is for - and isn’t after all everything bigger and greater in the US? ). Perhaps the Chinese should consider applying a patent for the Great Fire/Wall.