On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:26:46PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:23:31PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> What's silly or unrealistic about it? The totalitarian state in > >> question is the People's Republic of China. The original name of this > >> test is the "Chinese Dissident" test. > > > >I find it gross that it was suddenly renamed, losing much of its meaning > >for false "political correctness". It'd be nice if the FAQ would correct > >this. > > Why is the state in question significant? There's no shortage of places > where writing subversive software may result in bad things happening. China is mildly notorious for having a rather, uhh, "broad" definition of "subversive". Basically, if you're in China, your only defence is anonymity. Also it's a huge, modern nation with strong political, economic, and military power, and it seems likely to stay that way. Certainly the most extreme example, and probably by a wide margin. It's not like one of the tinpot dictatorships. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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