Riiight. So China blocks all access to Typepad based blogs from inside the country. Well, we all knew they were Commie Fascist Pinkoes quite happy to slaughter their own people and never all that keen on free speech either.
But.
This blog is a commercial operation (in however small a manner, yes, it is commercial…money comes in in dribs and drabs) and, until this decision some of that value was created by readers (maybe it was only one coming back a lot but that doesn’t change the point) in China:
| China | 468 | 0.19% |
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I agree that 0.19% of not very much is, err, not very much. Yet this is the action of a foreign government damaging the economic interests of a Briton. We used to have a Prime Minister who knew what to do in such cases….that was long ago and the past is a foreign country of course, but wouldn’t it be nice if we still had the odd politician with a touch of spine, one who was aware of and protected, even thought it was his duty to protect, the rights of the citizens?
In short, when are those damn gunboats going to turn up at the mouth of the Yangtze?
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