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NEWS: Beijing Bans Horror Stories Based on Death Note

ya know , personally in the whole , grand scheme of things. I don't see this as being THAT bad..

there's a LOT worse things that can be imitated and acted out by children. but writing down somebodies name in a note book? ... I ... don't see that as ... destressing.

Are the "local" versions of Death Note even legal?

Not to mention bans of websites like wikipedia or blogspot

In 2005, students in the northern city of Shenyang were imitating the manga by writing names of people they disliked in specially printed stationary and pretending that this marked them for death.

Of course those computer savy can find ways around this, but for most they just deal with the censorship, if they are even aware of it, which I am sure most are.

I read somewhere that many Chinese, especially younger people, do not know anything about the Tiananmen Square incident. Censorship is the rule over there, and ignorance is common practice, although only the government's indoctrination is to blame.

What most Americans don't know is that many Chinese people found the protests to be very weird because China was already changing to a free market and things were going well with the government.

If anything the protests set things back

Many Chinese did not support the Tianamen protestors because they didn't feel there was much to protest as the government was already changing for the better.

threatening to nuke Taiwan

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I read somewhere that many Chinese, especially younger people, do not know anything about the Tiananmen Square incident.

Well, I AM Chinese and I DO know about the Tianamen Square incident. Although I wasn't alive back then, my parents informed me that it was a very well known and publicized incident at the time.

China was already changing to a free market and things were going well with the government. If anything the protests set things back because it forced the government to crack down on the protesters.

Many Chinese did not support the Tianamen protestors because they didn't feel there was much to protest as the government was already changing for the better. In fact, many Chinese believe that the protestors were being backed by Western organizations who were trying to stir trouble with the Chinese government in an attempt to weaken it and make it look bad.

To put things in perspective, the protestors did things like they built mini statues of liberty. That would be akin to American protestors building little statues of Lenin. It just didn't go over well.

I am not saying that the Chinese government is infallible or anything like that, but I will warn you that you should try to see things from multiple perspectives before you judge a situation, especially political and historical ones.

And also, regarding the whole censorship thing. In China there has always been an understanding between the people and the government that goes as thus: The government can try to ban things, and try to appear to take a moral stance on things. That's fine. Because people will always find a way around it.

People will always get what they want.

That is the way of life in China, and probably the way of life in just about any place that people live.

However, United States has openly claimed that they may choose to use tactical nuclear weapons to destroy bunkers that are unreachable with traditional weapons

I don't think Beijing has ever made such a threat.

Using armed forces is very different from using nuclear weapon.