I banned Sting several years ago in my house.

"And you can hear it in my accent when I talk,

I'm an englishman in New York."

Using your pronunciation guide, I declare that your work is wonk.

The China government link has a comment about angry citizens boycotting the iPhone, such is their imperialist indignation.

Presumably Hon Hai Precision (aka Foxconn) will have to stop manufacturing Apple products in China. Or is there too much money involved for principles to get in the way of that?

Who in China buys their songs from iTunes? Chinese search engines has a dedicated mp3 search section, for any mp3, for free, in any quality.

Apple need to decide between funding Tibetan sepertists or do business in China, they are lucky Chinese media didn't report it or it will be Carefour all over again. You fund Tibetan sepertists, you pay the price, simple.

"Surely that should be The Peace Artist Foundation (PAF)?"

Royal Mail would have them for IP/TM infringement...

Let's us ban Itunes too. Both the overpriced download site and the software (quite the most confusing and disorganised program I've ever used).

iTunes is "the most confusing...program...ever used"?

O_o

Surely there's something out there you had more issues with? Have you looked at Vista lately? :p

Look, I'll accept that Sting is a complete twonk, but there's a new(ish- it's a remix) Underworld track on there. So I'll be buying it.

And the Tibetan people forever safe from Cultural Revolution Red Guard goons. Dismiss the Chinese government from office, dividing China into Uighuristan, Tibet, Greater Suburban Hong Kong (Canton province) and the Republic of China (temporary capital: Taipei, until relocation to Peking can be completed).

Well, maybe a few more pieces, so that the speakers of Mandarin won't be able to push around speakers of Southern Min and the other dialects any longer.

Of course, taking care of Russia seems to be a more urgent priority now.

Quite. Anyone for a petition to get Sting, Alanis Morrisette and Garbage banned from the UK?

Nice to know U2 will survive .

Now on the American side c, can we get rid of Brittney sprears, Alien ant farm.

...for Apple to look at manufacturing opportunities in other countries, hmm?

-Daniel

... yet another China bans something story .....

George Bush won't do it, it's good for business to have slave labor products over here. However as far a the internet is concerned, china doesn't really produce anything we can do without. Let's censor china, would surely cut down on the hack attempts and spam we get from the censors.

The internet does not need china to be on it, let them have their own internet as censored as they want it without being on ours.

You preach liberation in in the name of non-liberation, "safety" over "freedom", and one law for the Lamas and another for "the Tibetan people".

> [Make] the Tibetan people forever safe from Cultural Revolution Red Guard goons.

... and from the Dalai cult and all movers to reestablish for another 1000 years a repressive Tibetan feudalism drawing sustenance from an intellectually fraudulent and spiritually nihilistic dogma called karma.

china only has a few cities. with billions of square miles of china still wasteland. they waste all they`re time trying to kill a culture, with land that is worth nothing

Unfortunately, Tibet is not worthless land.

The parts that can grow food are largely outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region, it is true.

But the Himalayas are not only of interest to mountain climbers. Rocky terrain is where metals are mined; Tibet is rich in gold and doubtless other metals of vital economic and strategic value.

it is in theory. china and tibet could just be the same as briton and jamaica. jamaicas independent. while the british military is and probaly will be forever the main backbone of jamaica`s military. while the police will fly over there when ever really needed

"40 athletes downloaded the album in an act of solidarity"

If the atheletes showed any solidarity then they wouldnt be there in the first place.

I've never heard of this albium, so this is just an attempt to get some hype around it so some mugs spend cash on yet anougher "charity" con with "all proceeds" going to charity (apart from admin costs of course)