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dck
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作者：dck 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
Internet Censorship & The Ban on Sea Navigation
Lately, I came up an idea, linking the Internet Censorship in modern China to the The Ban on Sea Navigation 600 years earlier in imperial China's Ming Dynasty.
1. They have the same rationale. The Ming Emperor banned sea commerce and navigation simply because he was afraid of subversion from a former emperor at large. So he cut off people on the mainland from contacting the emperor in exile. The People's Republic of China has the same mentality on banning overseas Chinese content websites.
2. The historic momentum is the same. The invention of Internet is changing the human race for doing business and exchanging ideas, money and goods, just like the sea navigation of the Europeans lead to the discovery of the America and crops from America such as Corns, tomatos, potatos, beans greatly increased glabal agricultural production, and then lead to Industrial Revolution. (More people were liberated from work in the fields, so they can focus on technological inventions and trade, science, and leisure.) For example, China's population increased 400% in a short period of time after Columbus brought American crops to Europe and Eurasian trade brought them to China in the Ming-Qing dynasties.
It is quite likely that Columbus used the navigation maps of Zheng He in his way to the discovery of America. Unfortunately, Zheng He's venture was stopped, and people were banned to follow his routes on the sea, due to imperial bans.
Likewise, the Internet and China has an intimate relationship in the beginning, but the Government of China's censorship is banning normal Chinese involvement on the Net.
3. The result will be similar or even worse for China.
China was beaten by powers from the sea in the past; in the immediate future, China will become a 3rd class slave country due to the ban on Internet.
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