I like how you pretend to know China. I also find it funny how you are so... that you actually think that your way of thinking make any sense. I have a question for you...does being that ## hurt?

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> If you mean that it's your Chinese students who believe that there is
> freedom of speech in the countries you mention, well we can rest
> assured that they are not alone in their delusions. There is no
> shortage of people in my country (one of the above) whose social
> opinions are nothing but the vacuous parrotings of those concocted
> for them and spoon-fed to them by the "friendly" faces of
> morally and intellectually bankrupt, highly politicised media
> enterprises, and who promulgate these farcical conceits either by
> legal or social castigation of those who have the insight and the
> courage or foolhardiness to protest. You only have to duck over to
> the sorts of forums you mention to find yourself very quickly
> subjected to the inane and highly predictable ravings of these clowns
> who find eternal solace in their absurd mediaeval witch hunts. The
> political and social factors that allegedly operate to suppress
> "freedom of speech" in China, are in essence little
> different to those that operate to suppress it in the countries you
> mention. Moreover, it could be strongly argued that "freedom of
> speech" is in fact a state incongruous with human society and
> the human condition.