Wednesday, October 13, 2004
The bright side of Chinese law
Okay, lack of freedom and democracy is mostly a problem. However, people like Zowie Bowie or Moonunit Zappa or Fifi Trixibelle Geldof must agree that the availability of a little less freedom to their parents may have been entirely beneficial to them (the kids). Anyway, turns out the Chinese government recently disallowed an attempt by a man to name his son @. Reason? It cannot be translated into Mandarin as the law demands. Normally, this could be dismissed as typical undemocratic nonsense by the Chinese government, but in this case, I think a poor kid may been saved a lifetime of embarassment.
