It's Nice To Live In America - Chinese Censorship

An article on Cnet Asia reports that an entire data center was shut down by the Chinese Government. This action due to a few blogs that reportedly contained anti-political content.

Numerous business with sites hosted on the data center's server were being effected. RFA reports: "Participatory Web sites, forums, and blogging platforms came under strict new rules last week. But in an unprecedented move, the authorities have begun switching off entire Internet data centers (IDCs), which are home to thousands of servers.

This means that if one site doesn't meet government approval, because it contains pornography or politically sensitive material, all are taken offline. Of the 10,000 affected web sites, many of them are government and business web sites. "

It seems that the Chinese Government would rather close down thousands of web sites that are conforming to the strict political policies than allow a single blog post containing what the government has deemed as illegal information.

Regardless of your political stance, Conservative or liberal, religious or atheist, you would have to agree it's better living in the U.S. I may not agree with you on many different levels, but I still respect your right to express your opinion. And due to the fact that I have this platform for expressing my opinion, here comes one now.

Today is 9/11. This date means different things to so many. To me it is the anniversary of a senseless attack initiated by a group of radical, mixed up idiots who value death and destruction over acceptance and compassion. The same people who came to this country, exploited it's freedoms and attempted to crush our resolve. Take a moment today and remember those that were lost in the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor.

Freedom of speech, oh how often we take it for granted.