On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Philip Musyoki<pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, look at China. Sometime you have to give up some liberty for development and stability. The western model of democracy and freedom does not seem to work well for Africa. I'd rather have 2 billion fed, clothed and provided technologically people that 2 billion hungry people who a free and democratic.
Assuming that the chinese are super efficient at building infrastructure and enforcing a hitech police state -- you want to believe that the same can be done here ? then how come we havent seen chinese equivalent infrastructure (roads, railways, education, health-care...etc.) yet ... Going by your line of thinking then it may be easier and cheaper to beat up people with sticks and lock them up forever ... than spend millions of dollars on implementing and running a censorship and web-blocking system which will probably not work and will most likely get embroiled in some procurement scandal.