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Sep 7, 2007

CNet: How the Grinch Stole Davos

The World Economic Forum has started here in Dalian, and there are a number of bloggers covering the event. Kaiser Kuo, Thomas Crampton, Rebecca Mackinnon… Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing is here, but I’ve yet to see him actually blog anything about it (aside from a video interview).

But in any case, I did write a CNet post on the nagging question that’s on everybody’s mind but, as Rebecca says, nobody seems willing to discuss:

World Economic Forum in Dalian – Can you Spell Irony?

What’s so ironic?

Well, this whole Davos/WEF conference is held in a spirit of free information exchange in the interests of development. China, aside from being the host of this years forum, is in the past few days simultaneously launching an all out censorship attack, restricting free online information exchange on the Chinese internet.

Does that strike anyone else as strange? Jimmy Wales, are you out there?

Kinda like attending a Christmas party hosted by the Grinch, is it not?

Is no one else writing about this?
Or is everybody liking the eggnog too much?

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2 Responses

  1. Chairman Mao says:
    September 10, 2007 at 11:15 am

    Seriously

  2. China Law Blog says:
    September 15, 2007 at 10:02 pm

    I Heart Dalian, China…

    Excellent Wall Street Journal story on Dalian, entitled, “China’s Second-Tier Cities Catch Investors’ Eyes: Dalian Wins Intel Chip Plant With Cheaper Labor, Fresh Air.” [subscription may be required]. The article starts out by describing Dalian as …

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