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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- James Miles, of The Economist, has just returned from Lhasa, Tibet. The following is a transcript of an interview he gave to CNN. James Miles

So in effect what they did was sacrifice the livelihoods of many, many ethnic Han Chinese in the city for the sake of letting the rioters vent their anger. And then being able to move in gradually with troops with rifles that they occasionally let off with single shots, apparently warning shots, in order to scare everybody back into their homes and put an end to this.

Well the Chinese response to this was very interesting. B

The Internet is not the same for everybody. Despite it's reputation as a borderless, global, connected, democratic network, access and content filtering based on national boarders has become the norm. The BBC, for example, filters content for copyright reasons to visitors accessing their website from outside of Great Britain. Much more serious, however, is the heavy political censorship happening in countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. China, being the most extreme example, strictly censors political content on the web through the blocking of IP addresses and dynamic content filtering. With the support of western technology companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, and Google, The Golden Shield Project (sometimes referred to as the the Great Fire Wall of China) censors the web for China's 1.3 billion inhabitants. The Internet police in China is estimated to contain over 30,000 workers, and is responsible for blocking content such as Tibetan independence, Taiwan independence, police brutality, the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989, freedom of speech, democracy, religion, and some international news.

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

By next year, the Chinese internal security market is set to be worth $33-billion. Several of the larger Chinese players in the field have recently taken their stocks public on U.S. exchanges, hoping to cash in the fact that, in volatile times, security and defense stocks are seen as the safe bets. China Information Security Technology, for instance, is now listed on the NASDAQ and China Security and Surveillance is on the NYSE. A small clique of U.S. hedge funds has been floating these ventures, investing more than $150-million in the past two years. The returns have been striking. Between October 2006 and October 2007, China Security and Surveillance's stock went up 306 percent.

Ever since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, U.S. companies have been barred from selling police equipment and technology to China, since lawmakers feared it would be directed, once again, at peaceful demonstrators. That law has been completely disregarded in the lead up to the Olympics, when, in the name of safety for athletes and VIPs (including George W. Bush), no new toy has been denied the Chinese state.

我罵中國，因為中國是「我的」國家。你有見過我罵美國麼﹖就像那大叔，我才不會花力氣去跟一個不會反省的人吵，尤其當我跟他沒關係的時候。我為中國之榮而榮，為中國之恥而恥。為奧運侵犯人權、胡佳入獄，都是中國之恥。不為他們出聲，是讀書人之恥。

(不要跟我說「奧運是中國人的盛事，所以不能反對」這種鬼話。申辦奧運的是中共，我可從來沒同意過。我甚至無權選舉一個「代表我的政府」。所以中共絕對不能代表我。何況，就是在民主國家，每個公民都有反對政府決策的權利。正因如此，有人因為聲稱「不要奧運要人權」而被捕，才更令人髮指。)

In Saudi Arabia in 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, as the day is considered an un-Islamic holiday. This ban created a black market of roses and wrapping paper.[36]

Giles Ji Ungpakorn, 54, arrived in England at the weekend after being charged under the laws. He had been due to present himself to the police in Bangkok today and could have faced 15 years in jail if found guilty.

感 谢 信 作者：佚名    文章来源：网监处    点击数：60    更新时间：2008-7-18          ★★★ 海南省海口市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处：     2008年7月1日，我市闸北区发生一起暴力袭警案，造成6名民警牺牲，另有4人受伤，此案引发了中央和公安部领导的高度重视和社会媒体的广泛关注。7月3日，一则恶毒的谣言在网上迅速传播，称案犯杨佳曾被警察殴打，致生殖器受伤，无法生育，故愤而报复。谣言一经出笼，立即在网上掀起滔天浊浪，甚至有网民据此呼吁特赦杀人凶手，造成了极为恶劣的影响。我局领导高度重视，要求立即对网上涉警有害信息开展删除查证工作。7月4日，在海南省海口市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处的大力配合下，迅速控制了网上负面舆情并最终锁定犯罪嫌疑人郏某某，为最终在江苏苏州成功抓获对象做出了重要贡献。 在此案侦破过程中海南省海口市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处的鼎力支持确保了网上负面舆情控制工作和案件侦察顺利开展，你们在工作中表现出良好作风和扎实的基础管理水平值得我们学习。在此对你们表示衷心的感谢和崇高的敬意，并对你们在工作中的长期支持致以诚挚的谢意。   上海市公安局公共网络信息安全监察处                         二〇〇八年七月十五日

Still, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye was another who attracted the attention of the cultural police. His proposal to display several pigs tattooed in Disney and Louis Vuitton logos was rejected by the cultural bureau, which said that it didn't consider live animals to be art.

The catalogues were not ready on exhibition day because offending pages had to be excised, and exhibitors had hassles obtaining visas because of the Olympic season crackdown. Some had to apply twice from different cities and provide letters of recommendation, but most squeezed in eventually

The Fourth Amendment prohibition against illegal search and seizure made it into the U.S. Constitution precisely because its drafters understood that the power to snoop is addictive. Even if we happen to trust in the good intentions of the snoopers, the nature of any government can change rapidly — which is why the Constitution places limits on the tools available to any regime. But the drafters could never have imagined the commercial pressures at play today. The global homeland-security business is now worth an estimated $200 billion — more than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Any sector of that size inevitably takes on its own momentum. New markets must be found — which, in the Big Brother business, means an endless procession of new enemies and new emergencies: crime, immigration, terrorism.

here is a large and powerful country that, when it comes to human rights and democracy, is so much worse than Bush's America. But during my time in Shenzhen, China's youngest and most modern city, I often have the feeling that I am witnessing not some rogue police state but a global middle ground, the place where more and more countries are converging. China is becoming more like us in very visible ways (Starbucks, Hooters, cellphones that are cooler than ours), and we are becoming more like China in less visible ones (torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, though not nearly on the Chinese scale).

To the point that we have accepted this fact and feel it’s a logical thing to do for everyone and our nation. What’s happening even is that people are self-censoring and self-policing on media and speech without government.

上面的英文写道“A Tib-etan monk was dragged away by the police in Katmandu, Nepal, on Monday during a rally at United Nations offices”。“在尼泊尔加德满都，一位在联合国门前示威的藏喇嘛正在被拖走”。 这个错误被发现后，纽约时报又换了一张照片。 事件讨论现场。 讽刺的是，当人们（包括本人）斗牛士一样，兴奋地批评西方媒体新闻误导的时候，连那个地名的汉字和英文都不敢直接写，只能写成“西囧藏”。

深圳雄狮指责，阳江市公安局包围行动受地方垄断者指使，但阳江公安局未作明确回应。

阳江市110指挥中心证实出警信息，理由是雄狮公司车强行冲卡，还有群众举报车辆违法押运。

CNNIC发布了第二十一次互联网调查报告，这个报告里除了宣称中国有2亿网民外，还有两个数据引起了我的注意。 其一，中国网民的即时通信（IM软件，比如QQ）使用率达到81.4%，是仅次于网络音乐的第二大网络应用，超越了搜索引擎和电子邮件； 其二，询问网民上网做的第一件事，有39.7%的人选择了IM，是互联网第一落脚点中网民人数最多的一项。（均引自p.41） 参照国美国，即时通信使用率的情况是？ 39%！

The Worst Case Scenario, in which all the following happens:1) Tibetan monks or the FLG self-immolate during the opening ceremonies.2) Foreign tourists complain about secondhand smoke, "massage" phone calls to their hotel rooms, spitting, lack of queues and price gouging.3) Domestic tourists complain about even worse price gouging. Indignant domestic visitors get mad when their tickets are revealed to be fakes.4) Wiseacre tourists pose in front of the Olympics logo re-enacting this picture. Hilarity ensues when Chinese citizens/officials get wind of it.5) Athletes complain of racial profiling and repressive security measures at the Olympic Village, though in fairness its the Chinese security apparatus trying to do their best.6) A phalanx of visitors with protest t-shirts are detained.7) Japanese athletes get harassed.8) Triathletes succumb to pollution, or controversy erupts over the US and other teams sporting breathing masks.9) Nasty poor sportsmanship rears its head when Liu Xiang doesn't win the gold.10) Afghanistan's only competing athlete misses his event due to traffic.11) African athletes get harassed in Sanlitun.12) Al Qaeda or some other nutjobs pull a Munich.

然 而，从更严肃的层面上说，我们看“艳照门”，不是要做意淫的看客，而是应该努力透过这个事件讨论一些对网络社会的发展起到重大作用的东西，比如言论自由， 比如隐私权，比如互联网的监管，这些东西全部都是极为复杂的，其解决之道应该通过一个充分的沟通过程来达成。关于如何监管，我的观点很鲜明：第一，应该尽 可能使用现有的法律，而不是匆忙通过新法律，因为法律面对新技术的发展存在一个致命的滞后期；第二，政 府如果犯错误的话，也应该犯规范过少的错误，相信互联网会逐渐更清晰地成形。在互联网提出了那么多难以解答的问题的情况下，政府未见得有最好的解决办法， 即使有，也不见得是最好的解决办法。最终，互联网也许会催生出一种新的规范方式，不那么具有强制性，而更多地相信市场的力量。