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The result was a challenge to the prevalent thinking that the Internet in China is all about entertainment, and that Chinese users will stay complacent under Internet control and management, since greater freedom of expression was allowed right after the quake. But now it remains to be seen whether these changes will have a lasting impact on Internet use in China. With the state returning to its tight pre-quake controls over the Internet, users may resist giving up their recent freedoms.

我还查到了当今用地震云预测地震在世界上影响最大的研究者是旅美中国研究者寿仲浩。他从1995年开始运动自创理论加之观察卫星云图来预测地震。准确率奇高。 早年他预测了唐山大地震，近期又接连几次很准的预测了伊朗、新疆、巴基斯坦的几次大地震。 他的网站是 http://quake.exit.com，有兴趣的可以去看，保存下来的资料和图片都很具有说服力和学术讨论性。

民间活跃着大量这样的业余地震观测者，而他们却无法和专业地震观测机构形成有效合作，不能不说是一种资源的浪费。

The government now faces a tricky predicament: Having loosened its restraints on information flow this time, a return to its old ways at the next sign of difficulty could backfire. “The government should learn a positive lesson: When it allows freer information flow it is better for its image and legitimacy,” Mr. Xiao said. “But this will not always be a case, especially if the next crisis is man-made

China’s online censors can be merciless in their deletion of blog postings or forum comments that are deemed “too sensitive,” particularly involving anything to do with the so-called “Three T’s”: Tiananmen, Tibet and Taiwan. Post-earthquake negativity, though, has been tolerated. “Nine billion yuan [$1.3 billion] has been raised but how much will actually get to the disaster zone?” one skeptical commenter asked on a forum on Baidu, China’s leading search engine. Discussions focusing on discrepancies between the amount of donations declared by the Chinese Red Cross and the corresponding numbers issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs also have met with minimal interference, Mr. Kennedy said. However, the government has not turned a blind eye. More than a dozen people have been arrested for “spreading rumors” online, and political blogger Guo Quan was detained for questioning the risks posed by cracked dams and damaged nuclear facilities.

In fact, this debate on the premier’s crying should not be a trivial matter. Its poignancy and enormous political implications have been closely related to Wen’s former mentor, Zhao Ziyang, the CCP general secretary who famously cried in Tiananmen Square, begging the protesters to leave the place that would soon become an intended killing field. If Zhao were not indecisive or did not cry in Tiananmen Square in 1989, or if he instead stood on top of a tank sympathetic to the pro-democracy forces—bravely commanding the tremendous force of the millions yearning for freedom, human rights, and for a change of the corrupt system, like Boris Yeltsin in the waning days of the Soviet Union—China may have already had a bold and visionary political leader and a brand new political reality. But in the final crucial moments that decided history, Moscow did not believe in tears, and Beijing did. A great historic opportunity was lost by Zhao for the complete lack of a strong and resolute visionary leader from within the power elite who alone could command the enormous political and military resources to change history. And now, as Zhao’s erstwhile protégé, Wen continues that legacy [7].

I am deeply saddened by the loss of many lives and many more who have been injured in the catastrophic earthquake that struck Sichuan province of China.  I would like to extend my deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to those families who have been directly affected by the strong earthquake on 12 May 2008.  I offer my prayers for those who have lost their lives and those injured in the quake.    The Dalai Lama

噩梦并未就此结束。有感之后不到20秒，破裂抵达北川，在县城地下又进行了一次集中释放，主要区域近100千米。这次事件直接导致惨剧在北川县上演。两个主要因素使得北川面临比极震区更强的破坏！

也许 庶民之怒,不过是以头抢地尔!!! 沉默了几天了,这种愤怒让我无法安然入睡,镜框中那些一双双无邪的眼睛审视着我的灵魂,回到成都和某些人谈起此事,却听到这样一种声音:"学校由于其建筑的特殊性,开间跨度比较大,所以更容易倒塌......" , 我不懂建筑学,我只想问,为什么酒店的大厅更大,政府的办公室及接待大厅等,跨度空间都比学校打,为什么他们都没事呢?甚至,在照片上,旁边那个普通的教室建筑也没事呢?只是松动了几个瓦片而已.而这个三层的建筑屋却轰然倒塌成一堆废墟?! 这些,我想国家应该有懂建筑的专家可以给出个解答吧?

在這之中我還看到很多大陸的糞青大喊綿陽地區有核設施和軍事機密，不能輕易讓外國的人進來，免得讓機密外洩，所以要支持政府一切自己來，展現大國風範。 難道沒有人想過，這些設施是為了誰而存在？你他媽的人民都沒有了，這些科技可以保護誰？造福誰？這些憤青要不要把自己的腳也砍一條下來？

CNN的這則新聞是5月14日拍攝的，那時地震災後也不過才四十八小時而已，倖存者的存活率還有百分之五十三，CNN的記者都進的去車家窪了，台灣救難隊怎麼會進不去？台灣救難隊如果能夠進去，那失蹤的三千人是不是有更多機會可以活下來？那個全家罹難的支部書記會不會有更多資源可以調度？ 你覺得那個全家罹難還在救難的共黨支部書記（有人說他叫趙海清）會認為寧可讓那三千個人繼續埋在瓦礫堆中，也要保護國家的機密和長官的考量？ 還是這個滿臉淚痕的男子漢會希望有更多隻搜救犬？有更多熱顯像儀？有更多油壓剪來拯救災民？ 至少讓因為全家罹難而掉眼淚的人可以越少越好.... 接下來我們會看到的新聞就只有屍體和奇蹟了。因為超過七十二小時之後，這些人的生命已經一點一滴的流失，最後只剩下奇蹟可以讓他們活下來。

民之不存，國將焉附？

Close to 7,000 schools were destroyed in southwestern Sichuan province by Monday's 7.9-magnitude earthquake, which struck in the afternoon when many students were in class or taking their daily naps.