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Yeppers!!
Here we have two pictures -- from two of life's diametrically opposite "other sides."
For Americans freedom of expression on the internet is a given.
Throw the gates wide open -- oops, except for child predators, violent pornography, patent infringement, fraud, and theft.
Here is the historic Hillary Clinton speech:
It proclaims freedom of the internet to be a universal value transcending national sovereignty.
Firmly in the American tradition of viewing this country as the bearer of a universal mission to be spread around the world.
As China and Russia once sought to export Marxism, so the Americans have long agressively pushed their value system.
Around the world it is a popular one -- but not without critics.
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For China and other authoritarian regimes, hey, not so fast.Let's not let this technology be an out of control high speed highway for subversion, and anti-social activities.
Let alone for treasonous movements aimed at splitting up the country, polluting the moral spirit, undermining discipline, promoting individualistic selfishness, and slowing economic growth.
Let's build a "firewall."
But "we Chinese" still want the internet to help connect us to a global world of information and commerce on which our economic power depends.
Ah, perhaps both sides wish to have their apples -- and eat them too.
And here is the Chinese version of events:
Truly "A Picture From Life's Other Side."
