Comments on: Tear Down This [Fire]wall! http://www.usdemocrazy.net/2009/11/17/tear-down-this-firewall/ Trying to Make Sense of Our Democracy Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:22:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mitch http://www.usdemocrazy.net/2009/11/17/tear-down-this-firewall/comment-page-1/#comment-551 mitch Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:36:38 +0000 http://www.usdemocrazy.net/?p=3965#comment-551 In President Obama's speech, he spoke of the US pressuring China on human rights issues but not on the style of government (republic [the US is not a democracy] versus communist, etc). Imposing a firewall ban on Youtube and Twitter is not a human rights violations. Perhaps if US citizens self-imposed a ban (an unwritten right) on Youtube and Twitter our country would graduate engineers and scientists at the staggering large rate that graduate from Chinese universitys. Not to mention, achieving the ecomonic growth seen in China and being able to write full sentances. Which contributes to a higher standard of living; a good education and growing job market or candy-for-the-brain. Sorry more than 140 characters and I couldn't write a Haiku if my life depended on it but I do know some who can. In President Obama’s speech, he spoke of the US pressuring China on human rights issues but not on the style of government (republic [the US is not a democracy] versus communist, etc). Imposing a firewall ban on Youtube and Twitter is not a human rights violations.

Perhaps if US citizens self-imposed a ban (an unwritten right) on Youtube and Twitter our country would graduate engineers and scientists at the staggering large rate that graduate from Chinese universitys. Not to mention, achieving the ecomonic growth seen in China and being able to write full sentances.

Which contributes to a higher standard of living; a good education and growing job market or candy-for-the-brain.

Sorry more than 140 characters and I couldn’t write a Haiku if my life depended on it but I do know some who can.

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