Word: totalitarianisms
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...graphic novel” to be precise—that damned Thatcherism as racist, authoritarian, and even fascist, is often juvenile, my disappointment stems form the fact that the movie could have been great. The parts of the movie that dealt with the stifling woodenness of totalitarian vocabulary, the weariness bred by constant exposure to lies, and the indestructibility of human dignity were extremely well done, but were in many ways superceded by the childish desire to score cheap political points against Bush. I take solace in the fact that the flaws of “V for Vendetta?...
...posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers she has no real place in this new world. In another story, "Immortality," the rise and fall of a professional Mao impersonator comes to symbolize China's astounding past century, from decaying empire to totalitarian nightmare to capitalist powerhouse. The story, which won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for first fiction, is narrated collectively by the citizens of the impersonator's home village, as if all of them are speaking in a single voice. The effect is as mesmerizing as an incantation...
...turning point in our history from a totalitarian to a constitutional system, depriving the public of freedom of speech will bring disaster." OPEN LETTER to the Chinese government, signed by a dozen former Communist Party officials and scholars, criticizing the recent increase in media censorship and newspaper closures...
That's why Google's decision to launch a censored website in China was so jarring. (See "Google Under the Gun," TIME, Feb. 13, 2006.) Doing a totalitarian government's bidding in blocking the truth in order to make a few extra bucks is practically the definition of evil. Google acknowledges that it's in a tough situation but says it ultimately has to obey local laws. "There's a subtext to 'Don't be evil,' and that is 'Don't be illegal,'" says Vint Cerf, an Internet founding father who now serves as "chief Internet evangelist" at Google. "Overall...
...really isn't just about the money. One of the pervasive myths of the information age is that the Internet is a kind of magic spray that when applied to totalitarian states causes democracy to spontaneously blossom forth. "Westerners saw the Internet as this garage-door opener that you could point at closed regimes and open them," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of the forthcoming book Who Controls the Internet...