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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:04:06PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 10.36, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:04:15PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>
> > > In Europe, cheap printing led to [...] a
> > > sudden huge broadening in thought [...]
> > >
> > > In China, the result of the very same technology was the exact
> > > opposite; [...] centralize the imperial bureaucracy more
> > > effectively, and so forth.
>
> > the freedom of the press means that the people control the press.
> > if the goverment control the press, then there is no such freedom.
>
> Your point being?
> -- vbi
>
Hi vbi,
TB said that cheap technology was used to promote democracy in Europe
but was used to the opposite effect in China. But the point I was making
was that price of the technology makes no difference if it is solely in
the hands of the government.
- -Kev
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