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marvinthefirst
11/05/08

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Wow. This stuff really scares me. Who knows where it will end. Is this the beginning of the end?
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Gann
11/06/08

@marvinthefirst: No, its just cholera. Although it is a glimpse of what the end will probably be like.
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Daarken
11/05/08

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Fake.
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Annalee Newitz
11/05/08

@Daarken: Um, no. Not unless AP news is in on the "fakery."
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Moff
11/05/08

@Daarken & Annalee Newitz: If only there were some fast, convenient way to obtain corrobation.

[news.google.com]
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Moff
11/05/08

@Moff: Or corroboration.
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Meirelle
11/05/08

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DUDE! :0
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tamoko
11/05/08

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China just amazes me with their information control - or in this case lack of information control. It's like in World War Z, where the Chinese government kept trying to keep a lid on the bizarre outbreaks of teh walking dead.
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Moff
11/05/08

@tamoko: It's nuts. I honestly don't understand how the Chinese citizenry stands for it. (I mean, at least in the U.S. you have to give lip service to free speech when you're suppressing information, and for all the jokes and complaints about the Bush administration, I don't think this kind of thing would happen here.) I guess it's genuinely of those cultural differences that transcends simple understanding.
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tamoko
11/05/08

@Moff: @Silver_Back: I see it as partially a result of the the level of social conformity that historically exists in Asian cultures. It's also the weord group think that has uniquely within China, a very successful and compartmentalized hybrid of capitalist "muscle" fueling the economy and authoritatrian communist "brains" nudging and tweaking the 'muscles' below for their own golas and propaganda purposes... Wow! I sound like one of those talking heads on Sunday mornings... Time to go out, get a drink and play some Dead Rising in honor of our Chinese undead brotherean. Cheers!
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tamoko
11/05/08

@tamoko: Once again my haphazard typing betrays my true, catatonic state.
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jrghoull
11/05/08

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this is some scary shit right here...

i think its a real @$$h0le thing for the school to be taking the internet down. i mean, what are they thinking? that by nobody hearing a thing about it that the world will assume everything is okay?

i think when you are dealing with issues like this that the internet is the last safety net. should everything else fail, people need to communicate with each other over wide distances using things like twitter and other social networking sites to stay in contact and to stay as organized and informed as possible.
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Boas_MC
11/05/08

@jrghoull: Not providing food and water is pretty rough too.
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Annalee Newitz
11/05/08

@Boas_MC: Yeah, I think the food and water thing is much worse. Apparently the net has only been down for about a day -- obviously, it was up long enough that the blogger was able to get her information out to the world.
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ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
11/05/08

@jrghoull: Removing the internet was an effort to stop information form getting out about the situation. China does not need a panic, China wants to maintain the political goodwill it garnered from the Olympics. A horrible quarantine situation like this, with the food shortages is not a story they want to get out.
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