Blogs Become Dinner Table In China

After a New York Times article outlined the blog-life of Mu Mu, a 25-year-old Chinese blogger, Communist party member, and now free-speech sex symbol, the slammed servers may deny you access to her blog more efficiently than the Chinese government. In short, she hasn't really said anything the government can object to-she's not an advocate, she's a dancer, and a symbol of the new dinner table rebellion. Old and busted is the Chinese government's policing of the Internet, as millions of Chinese turn to blogging to express themselves, and Mu Mu (a pseudonym) represents the new hotness-literally (thank you Will Smith). Because, how can you control millions of bloggers, when you can't control one anonymous party member? Not that figuring out which figure would be all that difficult, and may be an enjoyable pursuit. "I don't know if I can be counted as a successful Web cam dance girl. But I'm sure that looking around the world, if I am not the one with the highest diploma, I am definitely the dance babe who reads the most and thinks the deepest, and I'm most likely the only party member among them," she reveals while revealing at NYT neglected to link us to). Mu Mu is representative of a new style of counter-cultural blogging-making fun of the government, albeit indirectly. The article links to Isaac Mao's website, which actually redirects to some things never change, check out this blogger's "investigative" journalism about Mu Mu's