Chinese Net Censors: 300 Million Voices in 1.3 Billion Still “A Small Fraction of People”
This is scary. China Digital Times cites a leaked Internet Supervision Office meeting as showing just how tough those censors are — or appear:
• The official started with a lot of heavy words and, in effect, BS.
• “Online public opinion is only the opinion of a small fraction of people.”
• Even if “300 million netizens all support something, it is still an opinion of the minority (versus 1.3 billion)”.
• The official then went on with this: “netizens are all young and have low incomes, and therefore are not important”.
A “theory of local truth” was then concoted, from which we quote verbatim:
The official invented a “theory of local truth.” He said: [certain phenomenon] may be true if you take a local perspective, but if you take the perspective of the whole, it is not true. For example, riots occur locally, it is true. But if you take the perspective of the whole country, [the society] is stable and peaceful; therefore to say our country has riots is not true.
Another fellow tweeter summarized this perfectly: “The head of the Internet supervision office is a passionate idiot (网管办的一哥就是一个热情洋溢的傻逼)”.
Let’s see — it’s just under two months now from the Big Sixty. And apparently, the events as of late have led to passionate censors fouling in their pants as the Chinese Internet population continues to mushroom. We’d like to hear from him again when the Net population doubles to 600 million, and eventually 700 million.
Maybe the censors would like to go back to primary school to relearn the maths?
Reactions
- “Sounds like the China Internet Supervision Office is being run by former Sen. Ted Stevens.” — @imagethief