Are you afraid of Chinese government?

[xiangsgao]

Are you afraid that CCP will shut down your git account and kidnapped you to China to face treason trial?

[cirosantilli]

Hi GAO23,

Are you afraid of Chinese government?

Are you afraid that CCP will shut down your git account and kidnapped you to China to face treason trial?

No. Are there any known cases of that happening outside of China.

[xiangsgao]

yeah, in HK, many writers had been kidnapped, some of them even hold foreign citizenship instead of Chinese nationality. I am more interested in knowing if the Chinese gov't will censor github like facebook because it has been used by Chinese netizens to bypass the censorship software, and in your case, voicing dissents on the internet.

[xiangsgao]

Oh, just like to mention that falun gong is an unpleasant cult. I can understand why you speak out against censorship but why do you sympathize with a group that... well, is pretty much this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

[cirosantilli]

Hi, extensive FLG discussion at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/blob/master/FAQ.md#falun-gong

HK: interesting, I didn't know.

GH block: I'm trying to block it and Stack Overflow. But I think it is unlikely to happen since there are so few users (only programmers).

[xiangsgao]

You support a "religion" that is homophobic and bigoted? Perhaps you dont know falun gong's history. it is founded in the 1990s by Li Hongzhi, a man who preached pseudo science to his followers and even once claimed that aliens from outer space had invaded the human society. Later, state media wrote a few articles ridiculing the practice and in response, mass of falun gong practitioners protested outside government compound. That's why they were banned.

[cirosantilli]

I don't support FLG, I support from of religion. I know all of this. All old religions are homophobic. Democracy is a just a new religion. See FAQ.

[xiangsgao]

Democracy is not a religion. No one preaches it as if it's a dogma. You don't understand falun gong. Just as fascism is a dangerous ideology that deserves persecution, falun gong is a dangerous cult that jeopardizes the Chinese society and hence deserves to be persecuted. I do find the extrajudicial arrest/torture/imprisonment of the falun gong by the Chinese authorities unethical and reprehensible but that is a different matter. I support its ban and frown on any one who defends such nonsensical cult.