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Over the past few months she's sent me China Disputes Cyber Crime Report about McAfee labeling China as a "Key Cyber Warfare Instigator" and Market Leader Says Software Developer Infringed Copyright about...well...I think in this country it would be labeled free speech but it really deals with a tool that allows selective spamming. A computer-science instructor, Chen Shoufu, developed some software that blocks ads but not from companies that support the development of his software.

Spam companies in the west would probably work to outlaw that kid of software based on free speech but in a country where free speech isn't allowed it's being attacked as intellectual-property infringement.

Ms. Prager also sent Free Speech Group Wants to End China's Internet Censorship about guess what? There are 162 million web users in China. It is the second largest internetted country in the world, second only to the good old USA, and a California based group wants to make sure the WTO's rules apply to the 'net over there just as much as they do over here.

I read through the material Ms. Prager sent me. It's worth a read to anyone who's interested in such things.

I also laughed. Regular readers might remember China, Mattel, and 18.2 million toys in which I offered that China isn't our enemy, it's our nemesis. The difference between the two is important. China doesn't need to destroy us, they own us already. There's a joke about this and it's a real example of "what goes around comes around".

A man's driving down a country road and passes a farm. He sees a pig with a wooden leg, stops and gets out of his car. He walks up to the farmer and asks, "What's with the pig with the wooden leg?"

The farmer takes off his cap and wipes his brow, looks at the pig and says. "My friend, about ten years ago my house caught fire. It was going blazes. My wife and I were near to dead passed out due to the smoke, my kids were goners.

"Friend, that pig ran up the stairs and dragged each and every one of us out."

"Oh," says the man. "So the pig lost his leg in the fire?"

The farmer puts his arm around the man's shoulder. "No, my friend, it wasn't that. About five years ago I was plowing one of my fields and the tractor tipped over. I was pinned under it. Gas was leaking all over the ground and all over me. I was talking to my maker because there was no one else around for me to talk to.

"Well, my friend, don't you know that pig comes a'running out into the field, grabs a hold of my belt in its mouth and pulls me free right before the tractor blows up."

"Ah," says the man. "So he lost his leg in the explosion."

The farmer chuckles and shakes his head. "No, friend, that's not how it happened, neither."

"So how did your pig lose its leg?"

The farmer just stares at the man as if the man's a complete idiot. "Well, my friend, that pig saved my family's life and saved my life not once but twice. You don't eat a pig like that all at once."

Budda-boom.

China can't eat a pig like the USA all at once.

And put everything into perspective. They gave us toys with date-rape drugs in the water pellets, they poisoned our children with lead painted toys, they poisoning our pets and livestock with contaminated wheat products and feeds, they sold us inferior cribs that have killed our infants, ... and we've given them the internet.

Seems like a fair trade, doesn't it?

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