Shanghaiist: Believe it or not, sometimes Big Brother does't really give a damn about you

de ming li

Thu, 15 May 2008 10:01:37 +0800

Great article D. Washburn. 1st : re: Jake : his name being josh freed : he is definitely not french canadian, in addtition to being the author of "The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec". Most French Canadians dont read the gazette by the way, as it is an english newspaper & we've got plenty of french language ones to choose from... so please leave us out of this. Montreal is a bilingual city by the way. I will now refrain myself from generalizing by assuming you are an ignorant meiguo ren. next time, remember : Ignorance is NOT bliss. 2nd : i have never had any problems accessing canadian newspapers in china. cnn : yes - bbc : yes - that is when there is subversive/negative china related content. Therefore, i agree with Simon Templar- on that particular day there must have been a negative story - this is basic "net nannying 101" : simply called keyword searches & block ... The journalist didnt think this through and wrongly assumed that people in the know woud read his piece. boy was he wrong. 3rd : i have never EVER had any problem with french newspapers, whether they be french, swiss, belgian, moroccan, ... or from Quebec. so, i am very surprised by his claim... I for one am very grateful the net nanny doesnt speak French. Finally, I absolutely agree that Big Brother doesnt give a damn about Quebec elections. Who does ? I know i don't. peace out Beijing Québécoise

kevinster

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:47:04 +0800

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Alanna Gagnon

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:43:10 +0800

That has nothing to do with being a French Canadian, French Canadian has nothing to do with French!

lindsaywilson

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:12:22 +0800

Where is Canada? I know where Shanghai is, everyone does! lol

Jake

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:47:51 +0800

He's a French Canadian people.......enough said......they love to complain......

Simon Templar

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:37:16 +0800

I rather think it was a simple case that when he tried to access his newspaper site there was a mildly critical article of China sitting in the particular on line edition of that day which caused Beijing to pull the plug on the particular site. This is the usual explanation.

Marc Tessier

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:31:34 +0800

I access the Globe and Mail's website almost every day in Shanghai. This reporter definitely didn't do his homework.

plex

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:06:43 +0800

@tangseng "once again it proves that most western people have way too big egoes ... and self-righteous, and manipulative, and ignorant... ok, the list can go on and on" Tangseng you have just demonstrating grand sweeping ignorance and prejudice. Here we go again ... let's see how many comments this attracts.

guava tang

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:06:42 +0800

tangseng, ruining the harmony? Self-righteous, and manipulative, and ignorant? Your post was some serious Charlie Chan shit.

TCM

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:17:24 +0800

I don't know many people who take the Gazette seriously in the first place, and reading that article will only serve to exacerbate those sentiments. I would not only hold the journalist accountable for this uninformed article, but the editor as well.

snazzy

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:58:54 +0800

His first mistake is thinking that anyone cares about Canada that much...

tangseng

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:50:57 +0800

once again it proves that most western people have way too big egoes than they'll ever realize, and self-righteous, and manipulative, and ignorant... ok, the list can go on and on... (not that non-western ppl don't have these "features", but at least they wouldn't dare to show it off to the entire world everyday) btt, I'd argue it's not even a crappy connection or bad luck or Great Firewall or anything, a pure fact is "money saving tricks". Did it ever occur to anyone that (at least in China) ISP get charged more for outgoing internet connections (abroad) than domestic connections? By limiting connections outside of the country, ISP can save money, and let's face that, how many foreign website an average chinese wants to visit everyday? not many... so nobody complaints, ISP wins, unless certain western writer came in, ruined the harmony, claimed himself to be deprived of basic human rights and started yelling...

EPM

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:39:37 +0800

you watch your key strokes T. or I'l give you the Bertuzzi'ing of a life-time.

T.

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:35:28 +0800

What a massive tool. Talk about self-importance. Just confirms what everyone knows . . . Canadians are boring.

globereader

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:48:05 +0800

"Shanghai-specific Quebec newspaper ban of 2007" ??? I think Shanghaiist is right... he probably just had a crappy connection. Or couldn't think of a better story maybe! I've had no problems accessing the Globe every day....

Sheniferous

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:36:40 +0800

I think that *subversive content removed*, so we can't *subversive content removed*. I mean, what about *subversive comment removed*?