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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/25/09

    In reply to Blog Apologizes For Racist Image
    Funny how the article doesnt' mention that the pic was up on Blogger, which is owned by Google.

    Did anyone else report that blog? I couldnt' have been the only one.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Blog Apologizes For Racist Image
    What about an apology for all the racist comments about the picture that appeared on the blog? Are they apologizing for those as well?
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/25/09

    In reply to Blog Apologizes For Racist Image
    Google is completely full of shit. Firstly, if they are able to tailor their search engine so it CENSORS EVERYTHING the Chinese government wants it to*, why is it so hard to eradicate this one picture? And secondly, if Jezebel can have a moderator, why can't Google employ a team of them to deal with complaints like this? It's not like they can't afford it.

    *Fun Fact: if you Google image search 'The Dalai Lama' in China, you get 161 pictures, only one of which is the DL - he is pictured as a young man meeting senior Chinese officials in the 1950s, before China invaded Tibet, murdering over a million Tibetans and destroying 600 or so Buddhist temples, forcing him into exile.
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    Image of Taren Taren
    11/25/09

    @Diziet_Sma: I just googled "the Dali Lama" (one l) and got over 2 million results, all of which on the first page (the only one I looked at) are of the current Dali Lama.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/25/09

    @Taren: Are you in China? Also, thanks for correcting me - but Dalai has two 'a' s.
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    Edited by Diziet_Sma at 11/25/09 11:12 AM Diziet_Sma was starred Diziet_Sma was unstarred
    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/25/09

    @Diziet_Sma: Because we don't live in communist China. Google didn't say they couldn't, they said they wouldn't. It's against their business plan to censor some search results that are offensive.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/25/09

    @BytheSea: Yeah, I didn't articulate that very well - I'm against censorship, unlike Google. So yeah, it's against their business plan, unless it isn't.
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    Edited by Diziet_Sma at 11/25/09 8:38 PM Diziet_Sma was starred Diziet_Sma was unstarred
    Image of boobookitt boobookitt
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    Can someone please tell me what 'explicitly fit' means? I get all the other sexual innuendo (and sexual obviousness) of the ad, but that's a new one on me!
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    08/24/09

    @boobookitteh: In the UK 'fit' means hot. And this movie is 'explicitly shit'.
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    08/24/09

    @cuteasabutton: Ah! I kinda see. Still not sure how hotness is explicit - unless that's code for 'porn'. But I may be asking too much to expect any sense here.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    I'm sure all these stores had the breast of intentions.
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    Image of Yahtzii Yahtzii
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    Vampires are traditionally very straight-laced. While a gay vampire makes sense to me, Bram Stoker's book was seriously like the straightest book ever. Men bite women, women bite children, and a sexy woman = bloodsucking demon. Stephanie Meyer just exacerbated the trend by making her vampires abstinent in every sense of the word. Also, sparkly.
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    Edited by Yahtzii at 08/24/09 11:39 AM Yahtzii was starred Yahtzii was unstarred
    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    Tarantino's latest film is being advertised in the UK media by the shortened title "Inglorious".
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    08/24/09

    @Rare Affinity: Perhaps they're more offended by the misspelling of "bastards" than the actual word itself?
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    Image of daria-says-what daria-says-what
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    Interesting choice of censorship: apparently "lesbi-", the very bottom of that girl's boobs, and the moon are so offensive that they need to be covered with what appear to be anti-smoking labels.
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    08/24/09

    @daria-says-what: They couldn't cover the "AN" because then you'd miss that hot girl silhouette. We can't have that now.
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    Image of daria-says-what daria-says-what
    08/24/09

    @AuntieBee: Gotcha. Yes, I'm sure at first glance, you notice the little mud-flap girl silhouette in the A, and not the giant luminescent cleavage. Boobs: because "the lesbian Twilight" wasn't moving enough product.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/24/09

    In reply to Boobs And Bloodsucking Are Fine, Unless You're A Lesbian
    Killers -- no problem.
    Vampire -- no problem.
    Lesbian -- Oh no!!!!!! Think of the children!!!!
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    Edited by NefariousNewt at 08/24/09 11:25 AM NefariousNewt was starred NefariousNewt was unstarred
    Image of Sputnik_Sweetheart Sputnik_Sweetheart
    08/24/09

    @NefariousNewt: Cleavage and a headless and limbless female torso is apparently A-OK too.
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    Edited by Sputnik_Sweetheart at 08/24/09 11:30 AM Sputnik_Sweetheart was starred Sputnik_Sweetheart was unstarred
    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/24/09

    @Sputnik_Sweetheart: But look where they put the sticker... can't have too much cleavage now, can we?
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    Image of valhalla_i_am_coming valhalla_i_am_coming
    08/24/09

    @NefariousNewt: interesting...in the redesign, they actually managed to get MORE cleavage in the shot...only to put a sticker on part of it...diabolical!
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    08/24/09

    @valhalla_i_am_coming: And managed to put the word "bloodsucking" in the area of where the nipples would be.
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    08/24/09

    @NefariousNewt: OMFG, I just blew coffee outta my nose...THANK YOU!!!!
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    08/24/09

    @NefariousNewt: This probably isn't that great of a representation of lesbians anyway. :)
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    Image of itsonreserve itsonreserve
    08/24/09

    @NefariousNewt: But wouldn't people who are oddly wary of lesbians be mad if they accidentally bought this, for their children of course, without being able to see lesbian under the sticker? Yes, it's discriminatory and terrible, but isn't it also a little dumb.
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    08/24/09

    @itsonreserve: Oh yes, it smacks of idiocy, but then the movie itself smacks of idiocy, so there you have it.
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    Image of heykoukla heykoukla
    07/13/09

    In reply to "Most Dangerous Woman In China" Challenges Censorship — Cautiously
    Interesting that in a country with such heavy restrictions on the press, she's publishing stories about corruption, government cover-ups and a health crisis. And here in the West, with all our press freedoms, more and more of our papers and magazines are being padded out with celebrity news, gossip and "women's" sections.
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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    07/13/09

    In reply to "Most Dangerous Woman In China" Challenges Censorship — Cautiously
    The more I learn about China and the media, the more I realize that my old boss (Chinese, moved to the US about 7 years ago) was such a bullshit slinger when it came to how "free" they were. She even told me that minorities get better treatment than "real" (her word) Chinese people. Oh, and of course, Tibet always belonged to them. Did I just end up with the most brainwashed one?



    No wonder my journalist mother doesn't trust any Chinese news sources.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    07/13/09

    @AmericanSplendor: She even told me that minorities get better treatment than "real" (her word) Chinese people.



    Now, in all fairness, you hear this one in America a LOT. Just replace "real Chinese" with "white men."

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    Image of doodley is not amused doodley is not amused
    07/13/09

    @AmericanSplendor: She even told me that minorities get better treatment than "real" (her word) Chinese people.



    I'm fairly confident that the Uighurs, at a minimum, would dispute this.



    On the other hand, I do know that ethnic minorities in China are not subject to the same population control laws as the Han Chinese. So, in that one respect at least, one could argue they are treated better.
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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    07/13/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles:



    Oh, I know, it's just I can easily NOT listen to those people, because i know they're spouting bullshit. But, with her, I didn't know, and I was forced to listen to her and I didn't know if she was completely biased, turns out she pretty much was.
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    07/13/09

    @doodley is not amused:



    She never talked about the birth control stuff, but she made it seem as if all they do is sit around and make up mean things about the government and no one ever gets in trouble. She said they have "no respect" for the Chinese government.



    Oh, and funny anecdote, she was at the University of Beijing in 1988, and doesn't understand why the Tienanmen square protests were "such a big deal."



    She would probably think this journalist is a total traitor.
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    07/13/09

    In reply to "Most Dangerous Woman In China" Challenges Censorship — Cautiously
    It speaks volumes about the leadership in Iran that they have more journalist prisoners than China, a closed-minded, heavily controlled nation with over 1 billion in population.
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    Image of AmericanSplendor AmericanSplendor
    07/13/09

    @Dallifornia:



    So true. And although the Chinese gov't will cut out sites like google and yahoo for periods of time, they're not completely cutting out wireless service.
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    07/13/09

    In reply to "Most Dangerous Woman In China" Challenges Censorship — Cautiously
    Osnos points out that she seems to see reform as a way to strengthen the existing government, not overthrow it.



    Well, first off, who really ever wants a coup except those who hope to gain power? And second, if I were her I'd rather be giving a moderate message all the time than a radical one between jail visits, ya know what I mean, Vern?

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    Image of QuicheLorraine QuicheLorraine
    07/13/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, and I don't understand why she has to want the overthrow of the entire system. What's wrong with reform?



    She seems super-clever to me, getting her point across without doing anything that could get her in massive trouble.
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    Image of AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
    06/23/09

    In reply to The Vagina Monologues Comes To China; Are Women Ready To Yell Bi?
    I was in the Vagina Monologues at school and it was definitely one of the best experiences for me as a then proto-feminist. (It was not handled Chinesely.) I hope all the best for this production, in whatever way it must go on.

    Incidentally, I once met Eve Ensler and she is an amazing individual (like anyone's surprised).
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    06/23/09

    In reply to The Vagina Monologues Comes To China; Are Women Ready To Yell Bi?
    I'm all in favor of a global reclaiming of CUNT. I said it the last time I was at an airport (discreetly) and it really did make everything better.
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    Image of nessalicious nessalicious
    06/23/09

    @tonightineed is actually Mrs. Ziegler-Spock: I said it yesterday in front of one of the builders who's re-doing our offices. His face went white and he asked me to repeat myself, I did and he looked mortified. More fool him.
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