High School Students in a Harmonic Society

While the official theme of the Chinese society is 'harmonic', the nation was shocked watching a YouTube video depicting high school students walking around in class while mocked, ridiculed and hit an ailing teacher.

The incident happened at a vocation training high school, Beijing Haidian Art Vocation High School. While most kids in large cities go to college, this type of schools offer opportunities for the few who don't. Nevertheless, the scene where a teacher was abused by students were so shocking that thousands, and perhaps millions of Chinese Netizens used Internet to show their shock and anger. Some offered bound for physical discipline of the kids involved, and some went to the school to confront the principle. An online forum dedicated to discussion of the incident was set up. Local medias sent reporting groups to the school, and local police patrolled the school.

A formal student of teacher Li wrote:

孙老师，您还好吗？

哭着看完了那段不想再看第二遍的视频，心理十分复杂。孙老师~~您现在还好吗？我是您在清河中学时候的学生，您教了我三年。孙老师是一个精通地理和历史的老实人，从来没有和我们发过脾气，红过脸，有什么问题老师总是把责任自己承担起来。转眼已经将近10年了，我也从一个小毛孩变成了大人，有了自己的家庭，毕业后我们还曾经回去看过您，可是听说您已经离开了那个学校，这么多年过去了，万万没有想到会以这样的方式再次看到您，得到您的消息，您还站在讲台前，继续着您的事业，服装没有改变，口音没有改变，还是和当年一样，记得我上学时候您就已经退休，后来是返聘回来继续给我们教书，我们也知道您的家庭有一些困难，还需要您这些微薄的收入来支撑，一位70的老人，本应该享受天伦之乐，安度晚年的，现在确没有得到您应该享受的内容，反而被推倒了风头浪尖，希望大家，包括媒体，包括学校，所有人不要再去给这么一位可敬的老人再增加压力，为难老人，让老人能享受一下真正的晚年，媒体记者，你们多关心一下老人家里的困境，为什么70岁的老人，现在还要出来教书，帮孙老师解决一下家里实际困难好不好。不要再为难孙老师了。真没有想到一群乳臭未干小毛孩居然如此对待年已70的老师。你们还是人吗，你们有爷爷，姥爷吗？你是真么对待你的长辈吗？你们的父母是怎么教育你们的！借用郭德刚的一句话：要不是法律不允许，我早打死你们了！.

The news was first blocked in China as it's against the harmonic society the CCP advocating. Then it was uploaded to the YouTube, a popular website and a Google subsidiary out of control of the CCP. It occupied many YouTube rankings in no time, including No. 1 most viewed Chinese and No. 1 most viewed film and animation, and many others. However, YouTube/Google's handling of the event is equally remarkable then the event itself. Although the video claimed 330 thousands clicks and 3 thousands comments in 3 days while occupying more than 2 dozens of YouTube 'honors'. It was taken off the cover page of 'most viewed' videos so that people who wondered into YouTube won't be able to see it.

Although it's clearly an embarrassment of the collapse of education system on moral values, the incident is nowhere close to the Tiananmen massacre or a scandal of government bureaucracy. For many concerned, it's such a chilling revelation that YouTube is collaborating with the CCP propaganda department in building the harmonic society online.

Test Posting YouTube Video

Moment of Truth in Communism Propaganda

Recently a Chinese propaganda official told the press that Chinese enjoyed the most freedom of speech as most western website did not allow readers to leave comments while most Chinese website did. Probably so.

Look at this Youtube video on the high profile L.A. police brutality. Even though Youbute does allow visitors to leave comments, actually visitors comments are what makes Youbute the $1.6 billion business, the comment function of this particular heavily visited video is disabled.

Internet has become a main Chinese for Chinese to release their unhappiness on social issues. It seems the government intentionally leaves the channel open so that less people will actually go on the streets. Thanks to cheap labor cost, thousands of Net cops were busy working to delete inappropriate comments. Still, Chinese Netizens get to enjoy moment of shout out on the Internet. On the other hand, although Google's video sharing business model is built on community comments, Google decides it's simply too risky to allow any potential criticism on government that they prohibit comments on sensitive topics. Or maybe, 'censorship' is just too evil a word for Google's taste, and 'shut up' sounds much nicer.

Stated in Google's own Code of Conduct, "..our most important asset by far is our reputation as a company that warrants our users' faith and trust." Google made its name and market share not only by its technically superior search engine, but also because of its 'being different kind of company', evident by clean user interface, and non-commercial rankings of search results, etc. However, the core value of Google has been put into test repeatedly as the company 'evolves'. So one day it may read 'All animals are equal', and the next day it may evolves into '.., but some animals are more equal then others'.

Just another case when the Mafia Nation is laughing at the Police Nation. Google, "Don't be Evil!"

Power of the Youtube

Yesteryear's historians would be amazed on how a 61 seconds video clip had changed the world. on the Nov 7, 2006 midterm election day, voters in Virginia voted incumbent Republican Senator George 'Macaca' Allen out of job. Virginia is the last State to finish the counting because of a close contest. Thanks to this final seat, GOP lost its control of the US senate by 1 seat.

George Allen was a top GOP presidential candidate for 2008 before the Youtube video told the world what kind of a person he was. An arrogant racist, that is. It's a personal tragedy for Mr. Allen to lose his senator seat, but its a priceless gift for the people in the US to know the fellow before sending him to the presidency.

Bravo Youtube! Bravo Web 2.0! Bravo Virginian People!

Those Mainlandness

A Youtube video clip of how TV hosts portrait mainland travellers on Taiwan TV.