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Internet becomes part of Tibetans' life - or how the Tibet/China bashing doesn't add up, or Richard Gere, get a life..

Mon May 9, 2011 11:20 AM EDT
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By Jim Em

By the end of last year, Tibet autonomous region had a total of 1.2 million Internet users, 90 percent of whom log on line through cell phones and the rest through broadband services.

Compared with 450 million Internet users in China, the figure is small but it accounts for nearly half the total population of Tibet.

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Reply#1 - Mon May 9, 2011 11:15 PM EDT
Jim Em

I like Gere as an actor, but the guy is seriously lacking in common sense.

If only he knew Tibetan history, I don't think he'd be so outspoken. But he seems to think that Tibet was paradise when the Dali Lama was in power and that equality was the norm and inequality never practiced. I'm sure he's been told, but like any zealot, they put anything that is against their beliefs on ignore. I have a brother like that who tries to control others lives - needless to say, most of his friends have lost their patience and he's now languishing in a mental hospital believing everything is everybody else faults.

What the western news feeds the west about Tibet is 20% truth, 50% taken out of context or assumed and 30% pure unadulterated BS.

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