My blog blocked again

Yunfei Ran

My blog blocked again

Yunfei Ran

How many of my blogs were shut down and how many times were blocked by the government seem in need of a careful enumeration. Since I started at Park De-sci (http://www.de-sci.org/blogs/top.php), within three months my blog has already been blocked twice. It is reasonable to claim with confidence that I am probably setting another Guiness World Record concerning the times of being blocked by Chinese government, which can hardly be realized in a free speech environment. I have to, as a result, express my gratitude to those who shut down or block my blog. Freedom of speech, or expressing ideas in public, is a means of freedom at any time, and it is what we should strive for in a society short of freedom.

Before 1949, there was no internet or blog, but the supervision over news by the Nationalist Party was far looser than that of today. They might seal up your newspaper, but you could apply and register for a new one the next day, reflecting a passage in a Chinese Poem: “the wild fire is unable to burn out those growing along with spring wind.” But after 1949, the Chinese Communist Party, who once published lengthily and tediously on newspapers of Liberation Dailyand Xinhua Daily to fight for speech freedom, who once chanted hurrah for American democracy, knows that freedom of speech is adverse to totalitarianism, thus it kills the freedom of speech and throws pressure on news and journals in such an extreme and extensive way that the Nationalist Party could barely dream of then. Even today in 21^st century, the extent to which these dictators still attempt to close down and blockade the news adverse to their ruling, in order to exploit the maximum interests from the people, is startling.

Till now we have had no chance to run our own newspaper, nor do we have A chance to open our media, but we have to break through from the internet and persevere IN our effort and struggle. Now that we are encountering THE era of internet, we are supposed to make the most of it and live up to what it means to us. We are supposed to draw on such truth-propagating tools like internet, in order to make unremitting effort for our own interests and dignity, without any compromise. We should make the dictators understand clearly that they should never underestimate a heart with ardent love for freedom. Freedom is the best state of human beings, and also based on which the dignity of human beings is realized and secured. So as to obtain our freedom, one of our principles we persistently hold is to bring the facts and reasons after breaking through all levels of blockade and close-down.  Now we have the internet, we have the blog; each of us could be a promulgator of information and truth, promptly and extensively disseminating all the news blocked by authorities, this is what everyone could be. If we become the promulgators of truth, the blockade of authorities will become ineffective and clumsy, and they will eventually lose all their legality as a consequence.

We should not be discouraged, nor should we deal with it—blocking of truth—with an attitude eager for quick success or instant benefit. Instead we should embrace such a posture like that of the constant dripping of water being able to wear down the stone, to further the progress of our society. Yesterday, I attended a small gathering of a NGO. Their effort of dribs and drabs is indeed moving that in future I will have to give a deeper explanation in particular on this topic. The effort we dedicate ourselves to the aims at realizing a society governed by the people, rather than ruled by those being being not really elected, and through governance by people, ultimately to achieve a state in which the people could enjoy what they have; to which, I keep my unchanging faith. I have no clue when China will be democratic, but I believe without a shadow of doubt that it will eventually get there. My creed is, even if we have to wait five hundred years to realize this dream, I will still devote my own effort to fighting for democracy and freedom. 

The following are all my blog addresses, hope you could disseminate. I will update them every day, please pay attention.

De-sci Part: A pack of gangster’s talking, http://www.de-sci.org/blogs/tf

1510: A pack of gangster’s talking,http://www.my1510.cn/author.php?ranyunfei

Independent blog,http://ranyunfei.org.cn/

International Bullogger: A pack of gangster’s talking,http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/ranyunfei/

(these links are in Chinese)