One of the founding fathers of the American conservative movement blasts China in a new article claiming that nothing’s changed much since Tiananmen Square in terms of human rights and religious freedom. He also points to Yahoo and Cisco for aiding and abetting China’s Internet censorship industry, and strongly implies that Yahoo helped the censors tweak its search engine to forbid taboo searches like “Taiwan independence.”
I don’t have a lot of respect for Weyrich, who is off-the-charts when it comes to being right-wing. (He coined the phrase “Moral Majority” back in the 80s.) But he does command a large and faithful audience, and is a good barometer for how the right sees things.
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By Anonymous
taiwan independence can be searched through yahoo totally, but fa lun gong can not be searched, in fact, the relationship between taiwan and china is a question after the chinese civil war, it’s so different, most taiwanese want to be independant, but most main land chinese won’t let this happen, it’s more about nation reputation, though the handing-over of hongkong does not take any benefit to average chinese people. i think the media in us, in a way also government contral, though better than chinese, just think about, if any major media report an article to question the Iraq war. what will happen, he might be thought of a betrayl. though it seems there is not enough reason to start that ashamed war.
May 11, 2004 @ 2:08 pm | Comment
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By richard
Sorry, but many US media have questioned the war in Iraq. Most of them are left-wing, like The Village Voice, but more and more everyday newspapers are questioning the war and saying Bush handled it poorly — even newspapers for the US military are saying this.
May 11, 2004 @ 9:20 pm | Comment
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By jeremy
yes, many unimportant and unkown media in the world, seldom people could be impacted by them. almost means no voice,look at the famous medias, who questioned the war???
May 12, 2004 @ 3:14 am | Comment
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By Brainysmurf
Truly a dumbass.
Via Richard I read that another China basher, this one by Paul M. Weyrich, has picked up his heavy jagged bat and started launching tirades. This is part of what he has to say: Yahoo! willingly complied with the censorship demands of the Chinese Govern…
May 12, 2004 @ 8:21 am | Comment
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By richard
Right now many mainstream media are questioning the war. Columns run everyday in the NY Times by Krugman and Kristoff and guest columnists saying the war is a doomed failure. And we’re about to see a lot more.
May 12, 2004 @ 9:03 am | Comment
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By jj
I believe Weyrich would be classified as a paleoconservative according to Public Eye’s helpful scheme:
http://www.publiceye.org/research/chart_of_sectors.html
But this is just a little throwaway rant. Weyrich’s too busy trying to free congress!
May 12, 2004 @ 10:28 am | Comment
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By jeremy
but the voice of question the war is still not very loud, in fact, when i watched tv for Oscar awards, when one of the director or producer said something against war, everyone sighed at him and hoped him get off the stage as quick as possible, look, how silly and inflounced many american are by the governmen contraled medias, as if who questioned the war, is a betrayal, sad for the american people, so silly
May 12, 2004 @ 12:00 pm | Comment
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By Simon World
Asia by Blog
Time for a tour of what’s happening in Asia… May 12th marks an important day in Hong Kong history. Hemlock has announced his intention to run for Chief Executive. This is clearly the best argument yet for full democracy in Hong Kong, now. Chris notes…
May 12, 2004 @ 10:52 pm | Comment
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By petes
Other than the comment about Yahoo!, what in his article did you disagree with, Richard? For the last year or so, this is all I’ve seen you post on – continued oppresion in China, continued lying by the CCP, etc. He doesn’t seem to overstate this much…?
Is it just because you consider him “right wing” that you have to try to distance yourself from him? If I took that approach, I’d avoid your blog altogether as I consider you mostly “left wing” and myself more conservative. However, I find truth in your thoughts and words on China, so I always come back and evaluate each post for what it contains. It seems you right off this short article of Weyrich’s just because it’s Weyrich’s. (And I really don’t know much about him, so I read this article fairly objectively; I wouldn’t have had any idea he was “right-winged” if you hadn’t said such in your post. In fact, I would have put in the same camp as you on China for the most part.)
May 13, 2004 @ 9:23 am | Comment
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By richard
Tell me, Peter — where in the post did I say I disagree with him?
The one point he made that I believe is a falsehood is in regard to Yahoo searches. I threw it out there because I knew that Chinese bloggers would be able to say whether this was true or false.
I don’t have a lot of respect for Weyrich for many reasons (I mention a couple in the post). I never said that what he says is wrong — or right. Did you leap to a conclusion?
May 13, 2004 @ 9:29 am | Comment