Monday, July 31, 2006
Tibetan poet’s blogs closed down
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18427
"Reporters Without Borders today condemned the sudden disappearance on 28 July of two blogs by leading Tibetan poet Woeser (also known as Oser and, in Chinese, Wei Se). They were shut down by the websites that hosted them - Tibetcul.net, a Tibetan cultural portal, and Daqi.com, a local blog platform - presumably on government orders amid a continuing wave of online censorship in China."
“We are appalled by the closure of Woeser’s blogs and we call for them to be reopened,” the press freedom organisation said. “As her poetry is banned in China, these blogs were the only way she had left to express herself. Their disappearance shows how the Chinese authorities go out of their way to limit Tibetan culture to folklore for tourists.”
This inappropriate behaviour by China is bad for China and bad for Tibet. India and others please do not follow suit. We remember Joe McCarthy and his U.S. censorships and persecution of great intellectuals like David Bohm and the admittedly rather nutty Feynmann - in the days when USA was a fine, great nation - and all who do remember, shudder. I heard the inside story about Bohm and whilst I won't repeat it again now I will say: Any intellectual in the USA at this time should worry like hell about being there now. Worse than the old days in Dublin for James Joyce, and a MUCH more corrupting atmosphere.
"Reporters Without Borders today condemned the sudden disappearance on 28 July of two blogs by leading Tibetan poet Woeser (also known as Oser and, in Chinese, Wei Se). They were shut down by the websites that hosted them - Tibetcul.net, a Tibetan cultural portal, and Daqi.com, a local blog platform - presumably on government orders amid a continuing wave of online censorship in China."
“We are appalled by the closure of Woeser’s blogs and we call for them to be reopened,” the press freedom organisation said. “As her poetry is banned in China, these blogs were the only way she had left to express herself. Their disappearance shows how the Chinese authorities go out of their way to limit Tibetan culture to folklore for tourists.”
This inappropriate behaviour by China is bad for China and bad for Tibet. India and others please do not follow suit. We remember Joe McCarthy and his U.S. censorships and persecution of great intellectuals like David Bohm and the admittedly rather nutty Feynmann - in the days when USA was a fine, great nation - and all who do remember, shudder. I heard the inside story about Bohm and whilst I won't repeat it again now I will say: Any intellectual in the USA at this time should worry like hell about being there now. Worse than the old days in Dublin for James Joyce, and a MUCH more corrupting atmosphere.
# posted by uv : 10:37 AM
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