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boybands, free speech, and dastardly internet piracy

In China, teen girls see hunks as dreamy, and route their way towards them:

Nonetheless, the craze blossomed here and in Beijing. “There was no way they could block [Taiwanese boy band “Flowers Four”, and their TV show “Meteor Garden”] here. This is Shanghai,” said Zhang Lulu, a 19-year-old devotee of the group.

She maintained that government bans cannot work in a society that also tolerates widespread pirating of compact discs and videos: “When girls like us have needs, there is nothing anyone can do to stop us.”

So not only do I live in the future; I live in a Bruce Sterling future.

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