[LINK] China's response to Google's exit

[Birch, Jim]

> In fact, no country allows unrestricted flow on the Internet of
pornographic, violent, gambling or superstitious content, or content on
government subversion, ethnic separatism, religious extremism,
racialism, terrorism and anti-foreign feelings.

For some reason that I don't understand we put religion and superstition
in different categories, but according to Karl Marx religion is just a
form of superstition.  A wander around a few Shanghai hotspots might
suggest that China and Marxism have clearly parted ways but Marxist
concepts are still underpin official Chinese political discourse. 

Jim   


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