In the Korea Herald, Ma Jian writes:
Since April 15 of this year, the Golden Shield’s advanced science and technology has been monitoring every thought and action of those Chinese people who use the Internet. But what Orwell failed to predict is that China’s government has accomplished this with the help of Western democracies.
Today, China is the only country in the world that has enshrined in law the concept of a “Web political criminal.” Publishing articles on the Internet can amount to “committing an offense,” and “radical views” may result in imprisonment. The real criminals, the officers of the companies – Nortel, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems – that built this sinister system of mind control, will never get closer to a prison than China’s five-star hotels.
Thanks to Yong Liu for contributing this link through del.icio.us.
