Chinese bloggers were not silent to the 4th June disaster. People like to be free, so do Chinese people. We know what’s right and what’s wrong. Here are some of the posts by Chinese bloggers that arrived in my Google Reader today:
Keso’s June 2nd post
We will remember today, because many good international websites, such as Bing.com, Live.com, Twitter.com and Flickr.com, became inaccessible thanks to the GFW. The Internet of China became the largest LAN.
The GFW is a black box. No one knows where the order came from, what were the reasons, who would be the next, or how to get out from this black box.
Within one to two hours, the phrase “fuckGFW” ranked second as the top topic on Twitter. Chinese netizens extremely hate to be locked up by the GFW, which was built with our own hard cash. Please keep in mind, we are very angry.
We might not yet have the power to break down this wall, but we are vengeful, June 2nd, 2009, a day so dark that it took my breath away. Fuck the GFW!
Laobai’s June 4th post
I wanted to say something but felt my heart was empty, hard to find words.
What happened twenty years ago is reflecting clearly in my mind like seeing a film right now.
A year ago, a journalist from “Shenghuo” magazine interviewed me about my personal experiences of the Chinese restructure. I was at a one-way street in the Old Summer Palace and talked for at least two hours. Although I do not know what happened after, I at least vented a whole lot.
But today, I do not even have the opportunity to vent, or I do not have the guts. 20 years ago, my mother said, the gunshots sound as if they are shooting up at the buildings. 20 years later, aside from the stray cat downstairs, I hear nothing.
Tonight no one can (talk) but “sleep”.
Herock’s June 4th post
Digitalboy
I heard that he was “invited” to the police station more than once to explain himself because of this T-shirt (see right).
Ranyunfei’s June 4th post
Everyday is June 4th.
During the past twenty years, the society has been developed, economically, that I cannot deny. However, the disaster continuous to today, and if we cannot directly face the real situation of human rights, then the real problem of 6.4 hasn’t been solved yet, and people still have to suffer.
I believe there were many more posts published on June 4th or over the past few days that spoke of freedom of speech, human rights, the GFW, etc. I collected these post NOT to tell you what is wrong with the Chinese governments, but because I wanted to show you how Chinese bloggers reacted to the situation, we (the Chinese people) never stop fighting. We do not just fight on June 4th.
I want to see China get better.
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This is a powerful post, and counter to a lot of the press coverage that talks about how the younger generation of Chinese are just focused on making money and enjoying prosperity and stability. Whenever I hear conflicting reports about China, I assume they are all true but reflect different aspects of an incredibly diverse country with people that have very diverse opinions.
Prominent bloggers like Keso, Laobai, and the rest are especially connected to the global information flow because of the Internet and their own broad thinking. They are an important bridge between China and the rest of the world. But I suspect that they are in the minority in their interest to publicly fight for many freedoms like freedom of speech and the freedom to openly examine historical events like June 4.
The spirit of the Chinese people is strong, and even more evident with the growth of the Internet and the blogosphere for providing a public space for debate and discourse! Thanks for sharing this Ying!
why just bloggers from donews? anyway, good starting!
They were not only from Donews, they were bloggers that I’ve been flowing closely on my google reader, that’s all. Did I answer your question, Ye?
that’s ok, just thought a little strange, maybe not a broadly representative blogger, but, who cares? right?
Within one to two hours, the phrase “fuckGFW” ranked second as the top topic on Twitter. Chinese netizens extremely hate to be locked up by the GFW, which was built with our own hard cash. Please keep in mind, we are very angry.
Today I read a in a newspaper article that twitter is close to becoming useless because 10% of the people in twitter generate 90% of the content. This is the very reason why.
Here’s the article BTW.
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2009/06/05/04/3818-82/index.xml
I’m with Elliott. Incredibly powerful post that defies the Western press coverage of recent days.
Definitely like this.