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Thursday, January 26, 2006

What Oppression Looks Like

What a Google search for "Tianamen" looks like for Americans:

USA Google Image Search For Tianamen


This is what it looks like in China:


Chinese Google Search For Tianamen Square


Notice anything different?

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Oppression? Or did you mean the sister of suppression?

About a dime’s worth of difference in any regard.

likwidshoe on January 27, 2006 at 12:02 am
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Tbey are oppressing via suppression, but suppression probably would have been more specific.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Rob on January 27, 2006 at 05:01 am
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This is a brilliant post Rob.  Your own idea?

Marty on January 27, 2006 at 04:02 pm
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