Chinese Revolution?

[AntFilledBeach]

the goverment should be afraid of thier people and want to statisfy them , if not so then the civilian's will go against it. olso no country in the world is big enough to really sencor the internet , because the normal people just go right around it

[Beeevaaa]

Leftovers ._.

[ayoopdog]

free tibet

[PeterFilsell]

I thought Youtube was blocked in China because of the Great Firewall?

[sarajmy]

@PeterFilsell it is blocked. not only youtube. facebook, twitter. i can only come here with some software's help:P

[asuperpower]

Two word answer: Tor Network.

[willliu8944]

Who do u think u r, outsiders? No one gives a shit about u

[Adamaaronmohoboob]

The last tag is handsome...

[neeeeves]

why are the two top comments about Dan's appearance? --not that it isn't a topic of utmost interest :) --but this guy has SO much to say that is worth listening to.

[ashwadhwani]

Good man, good mind. Dan Brown 2036 ;)

[EFLOWProductions]

Who instead of watching Dan they were watching his reflection in the mirror o_0

[Msunappreciatedartis]

that mirror is distracting

[LQSW1]

Ai weiwei ,hes the man who wanna change the whole system.so he couldn't get much support in china. Han han ,the most famous protester in china,few days ago,he wrote some blogs,he said he want to have right to free write but not revolution

[LQSW1]

recently,there are some protesteres in wu kan village of south china.they anti the local government BUT they take out the constitution and read it loud ,they talk to the local gov :you have to obey the law and the beijing government!! at last the beijing gov made a deal with the protester and they can revote for the village head.so you can see,in china,people will angry about some illegal behavior but they don't want to change the system.at least now

[rukthalu]

dan is a sexy sexy man.... that is all

[gauntlander]

Hi Dan. Nice topic. I just want to clarify that the Chinese censorship of the Internet isn't really complete shut-downs. They just build domestic clones of Youtube, FB and Twitter over which the gov has more control in general and in case any "high-political turbulence" happens. These tools have indeed helped people to hold the gov more accountable when they're doing a bad job (eg. the train crash in Wenzhou). Ppl do protest, but they good humoredly refer to the protests as "performance art".

[a7lyqq]

@gauntlander those Chinese domestic clone products of facebook, youtube and google are call renren.com, youku.com and baidu.com, all of which are under the CCP's heavy censorship. If users type in with any sensitive words or phrases, the whole message gets undelivered, typically on QQ, the chinese clone of MSN. And people ironically call it an act of he xie, which literally means homonise

[Missunderstand100]

I have the same chair. Target, Made of bungi cords. Like a boss.

[mynameisdrj]

4e to 5e don't attack first

[fluffy8me1]

This is a really stupid question, but what are your views on stereotypes? (English people cook bad food or Americans are fat-asses) Personally, I hate them and I think they're stupid. However, some of them are pretty funny like Canadians say, "Eh!" a lot (I'm Canadian).

[MultiAlpha111]

oh, yeah, you could encourage Chinese youth a lot only after burnning down the beckingham palace and cutting off your queen's head

[BuecherFuerAlle]

LONG LIVE CHINA!

[DE0DOX]

I HAVE THAT CHAIR!

[zoukun777]

It's very funny that we actually call the Internet in China as "the great local area network(LAN)" lol.

[Bananaluver3]

Y rnt u postin

[xPureDeth]

Yo Dan. Where you at?

[rococobellerose]

your so beautiful :3

[kpatthethird]

Dans videos are going way over my head lately. Maybe I'm too stupid to keep watching...

[JaylaCucu]

1984 was so interesting. Utopias in general are so interesting....

[hayimbord]

have you guys ever noticed that if you look at the picture for some of his videos his head follows your kinda creepy haha

[sygede]

AWESOME！dude my friend in China just showed me your video on one of their website in China. great work! sadly, developing projects on Great Firewall of China is said to be VPN blocked. means no proxy anymore in the future :(

[ninearthify]

lol i've lived in so many countries and by far the country with the least amount of freedom is the US. All you guys have is the illusion of freedom. Travel a bit. People abroad are happier, and have more stuff than you will ever have.

[ControlledChao5]

My cousin works in china

one day at work he tried googling Democracy

The entire office-building lost connection to the internet immediately

[LeoJelloAndAnaHearts]

@ControlledChao5 Wow.

[sygede]

@ControlledChao5 Very True. in 09 I went back to China during summer. I was taken by police simply because some unfavorable comment I said over internet. :-(

[ControlledChao5]

@sygede it's fucking sick how they can just do that

[sygede]

@ControlledChao5 "Freedom is not free" :-)

[MrAsnov]

I'm sorry but you look a lot better with hair. Just so you know",)

[G4m3rB0y114]

That Mirror is distracting

[nurat98]

the music makes his videos a lot better... nice move dan

[ricowtfyoufailorg]

& btw u can enter the ip address of facebook/youtube/twitter to go to the address works since september 2011 (when i was still in china)

[ricowtfyoufailorg]

But corruption in government is slowly being governed a bit more strictly by the chinese governemnt e.g. the town where i live, the mayor was so corrupt that he had enough money to buy a ferrari for his 2nd wife (not legal wife dont know wat its called in english) he was sentenced to death role with no bail

[ricowtfyoufailorg]

But i agree with dan's point that citizens and residents live in fear of the chinese government becuz of their control in most public facilities and jobs through corruption of government in big coperations. I know for a fact that government officials are easily bribed in china and will not do as you say if you do not do so becuz there are other people who are willing to get things accomplished through illegal means.

[ricowtfyoufailorg]

Hey PogoBat nation i just want to say that in China, there are media sites such as renren (chinese equivalent of facebook) where you can talk about almost anything. Even the arab spring up rise.

[a7lyqq]

wowhwowowow，mate, I will download this and then upload this to a Chinese widely used video websites and let it be seen by Chinese students, most of which remembered u and like u, and I believe this video of urs could be another hit since ur last series of Chinese trip videos!

[zoukun777]

@a7lyqq I believe it will be removed from the Chinese websites after a few people watch it lol

[DMChester12]

so does that mean all videos uploaded from china are illegally done there?

[TheBoomTube]

I really like this angle, i can see the rest of your body in the mirror being awkward, which is awesome!

[gulp3sif]

I can't hear you over the music in the background

[DrQuijano]

Me: "Hmm interesting"

My nephew watching over my shoulder: "LOL I can see his back"

[Raewi]

Spent the whole vid watching the morror.. Sit still, boy!

[EvKbassdude07]

gah! i don't understand these political videos

[bourakki]

Wow, you almost equal the quality of your "Occupying Wall Street" video.

[Borbuster]

"New media mediums" is just wrong.

[leraginasian]

mark my words dan, 2012 will be a significant year in human history. we are at a crossroads. one way leads to the continuation of control, manipulation, war, and crime, the other leads to the opposite. next year will be a catalyst for massive change. we just have to decide what that change is. this "change things" type of sentiment will NOT get smaller, it will only get bigger. and once things get really big and wacky next year, just remember the guy who posted this comment on your youtube.

[ramone712]

dan i always love that thing at the end of your videos lol thumbs up if you guys like it too

[thescrewypanda]

Hi Dan & Fellow Youtubers. The Great Firewall of China is growing stronger... They shut down proxies like mad. But not my newly bought VPN weee... So living in China for the past 6 years I can say... "The Big Brother" is making it hard for the average Joe. Fear forces people to self-censorship. 800 mil below the poverty rating and most of the others don't have internet at home. So they have to use Cyber Cafes.. New rules last year: NO foreigners & NO access without Official ID. Scared yet?

[najinajina]

Haha, Dan is posing in the thumbnail.

[ki11bi77]

Hey DAN

I would love to see you make a video of you breaking down how our Government works. Example 3 branches of Gov L, E, J, and these things do this and that, I would like to see you start becoming a hub for this kind of forum and have your own website organizing these kinds of teaching tools so that those of your viewers will start learning from you. Kind of like your rubrics cube tutorial. Anyway

[YDchannel]

I have the feeling this chess game is going to take a couple of months xD

But I'll be glad to watch it.

[cballet315]

GO CHINESE

[MsNennykinz]

Is it creep that I was looking in his mirror the whole entire video ;DD

[buzzerbeater9000]

The mirror adds a whole new dimension to your videos.

[MrCtruckDriver]

Nc3 Winawer or Nd2 Tarrach I like your videos!!!!!!

[OhsmBart]

the mirror annoys me

[NobodysOffTheHook]

@OhsmBart That's not a mirror. It's a rectangular hole in the door and that's his clone filming a video in the other room.

[LeoJelloAndAnaHearts]

@NobodysOffTheHook Wow, that's amazing. Yay creativity.

[leroibonois]

@OhsmBart ITS MADE TO MAKE THE VIDEO MORE "CINEMATOGRAFIC"

[seaweed810]

@OhsmBart it's a cool chair though

[giggshenrik]

being from Norway, it's weird hearing you use the word "populist" as a positive :P

[RetardedGuitarGuy]

@giggshenrik Hey, Nordmann! Kult å treffe på landsmenn på internettets evige gressletter!

[giggshenrik]

@RetardedGuitarGuy ja ikke sant :P

vært sub'a lenge til Dan?

[RetardedGuitarGuy]

@giggshenrik Neh, ikke så lenge. Sub'a like før 3.0 begynte å gå til helvete.

[giggshenrik]

@RetardedGuitarGuy hehe, sku vært dær før d! når d virkelig va awsm :D

[mrkhrules]

@MALSIV oh ok c:

[NayannnnxD]

green, red, yellow, purple, pink you will soon run out of colours on your thumbnails and omg then whats going to happen arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[ccconfetti]

DAAAAN, nice mirror

[IrradiatedTV]

"The Great FireWall of China."

I laughed.

[EvilHungarian]

The mirror is too distracting... :/

[sckD0JO]

What's your opinion on the new national defense authorization act?

[flapjackattack4]

@sckD0JO did you read that on newsvoice? everything they said was way out of wack, go to npr.org and read their article on it. There's really nothing too controversial about it

[johammbass]

"lopsided distributions of wealth"? Commie fuck

[johammbass]

"Lopsided distributions of wealth"? Just like the speed at which different people would be able to run 1000m would also be lopsided. Dumbass, poverty is when everyone's life sucks equally, e.g. USSR. You have no understanding of basic economics. Go and fuck yourself

[FlyingPigBoy]

@johammbass Uh, no, that really isn't how it works. Just because some people have a lot of money doesn't mean there's no poverty.

[antony492]

Seriously Dan, Where are you? I feel like we are losing touch with you. You are becoming a distant friend :(

[JoeeWeBby]

h ttp :// wamjelly .co m/ ? ref=463 rid the spaces and go on it. its insane, research it.

[RT19908888]

internet block is no use for those who even got tiny bit of education. I know tons of chinese who still go on fb &utube everyday

[Colebankzz]

i'm not a zombie!

[FreeeeS]

how bout you dont put background music pogo we can load up our own fave song and play it in bacground, Clocks for instance, goes well with the topic of this vid i think "tides that I tried to swim against, have put me down upon my knees..."

[GwFragg]

it is a white button now ='(

[TheSeanoftheBread]

In my eyes, China will be a difficult nation to be a democracy. Thomas Jefferson once said that a democracy cannot be sustained withing a nation that is too large. Look at it like this, larger nation means more land and more people. More people means more power for the politicians and rulers of countries. That power will begin going to that political leaders head, corrupting them. The best way for China to become a democracy is to elect representatives, but that still may fail.

[ihatepredictivetext]

Who kept looking in the mirror?

[TheMrEjdrup]

This might seem menial to the subject of the video, but the music in the background annoyed me.

[squiresuzuki]

Must know what chair that is...

[MC1250]

LOL the great fire wall of china

[swordmaster373]

I couldn't focus on Dan, Dan's amazing back in the mirror was too distracting :B

[10CPhil]

One of the primary reasons I joined YouTube was to keep myself informed about important issues such as those that are perfectly expressed in this video. As I age I get more & more cynical & suspicious about the "established media" & the distorted opinions it "promotes". One of the things that gives me some hope is the existence of these new IT based forums, a new "public media" that can only increase in strength as all ages become more computer literate. Good video Dan - eloquent as ever :0)

[Zeljko96Srb]

china can't go pro communism or pro democracy for a simple reason if they chose any of the options a lot of people will die (we are talking about two hundred million people)

[JEAN396]

Dat mirror.

[xthepierrex]

Thumbs up if you watched Dan's reflection in the mirror the entire time!

[makchunghin]

I am glad that western countries started to concern about China. As a Chinese, I AM WILLING TO DO SOMETHING FOR MY MOTHERLAND. COMMUNISM SUCKS.

p.s I am living in Hong Kong, so I will not be arrested!

[JeyPeyy]

@makchunghin Do you actually believe that's communism? Although the party is called "Communist Party of China" it has nothing to do with the learnings of Marx. What you are seeing is a corrupt, imperialistic, capitalist dictatorship. Something that in my eyes is a really bad system.

I'm not saying communism is good, but it's not what China is having right now.

[makchunghin]

@JeyPeyy I am sorry but I think we all know better then you. No disrespect but we are living in it. It's not that conspiratorial at all. Some of the bad news in China is fake, though not all of them are true. Dictatorship, but it's communism. China was terrible, 6/4 and on and on and on. But my country is becoming better and better. I know I am not good at politic, I may make some ridiculous mistakes so please bare with me.

[JeyPeyy]

@makchunghin Communism is an ideology which strives after a classless, moneyless and stateless society (look it up on Wikipedia). China is neither one of those, that's why I'm saying China is not actually real communism.

I know China is becoming better in many ways, I've been there. But I fear that China wants to become a capitalist empire, and we don't need one more of those (the biggest one being USA). I sincerely hope everything turns out well for you and your country.

[makchunghin]

@JeyPeyy I hope so, It's still not affecting me. But in 2047, it may affect me. Because after Hong Kong is returned to China and China promised that nothing in Hong Kong would changed in 50 years. (In this 50 years, we are not control by China, at least we will not get caught by saying such thing on the internet) Just hope China will be better. And talking about capitalist empire. I think China is always passive. It's America. Because the upraising China threats USA.

[aweingalliterations]

@JeyPeyy I have a more positive outlook on this than you do. China is striving to become a capitalist empire, and no matter how much Americans don't like it, they're coming closer to their goal. To accomplish this, though, I think China will have to make some DRASTIC changes in their government. They'll have to fit into the idea of a superpower, a country that has influence, money, and power to make nice with the bigger countries. China still has that image, what with the kind-of-communism gover

[TheRectorscale]

Happy Thursday *corndog*

[itsnotwierditsart]

Our youtube will be blocked to SOPA D:

[digger96]

Were you saying something? I kept staring at your back... :-)

[Ky0uran]

There are enough people in China who just use a proxy.

[NarwhalCannonball]

I can't help but look at your mirror. ALL THE TIME.

[MALSIV]

Click what orange button? :c

[mrkhrules]

@MALSIV the orange button is the subscribe button. why? because the subscribe button used to be orange a couple years ago

[MALSIV]

@mrkhrules I know it was, it was a joke

[xtremethomas]

@MALSIV The orange button has been long gone... ;(

[KIANA4EVER123]

@MALSIV Don't act dumb you know what he means, also the orange button is at the channel ...

[MALSIV]

@KIANA4EVER123 Why are idiots not getting that I'm joking?

[KIANA4EVER123]

@MALSIV Because we all thought you're the idiot.

[landofconfusion838]

@MALSIV it used to be the subscribe button its now grey

[ElloTink]

@MALSIV the subscribe button used to be orange, forever ago of course

[MALSIV]

@ElloTink aaah can people stop responding, I know the button was orange before, gimme a break!

[DutchTapeFTW]

@MALSIV the subscribe button used to be orange and this was his old intro. We all loved it so wanted it back for his new videos

[Delusionul]

@MALSIV It's orange, you're just color blind. :/

[MALSIV]

@Delusionul Aw, damn :'(

[ISwishAndFlick]

@MALSIV The subscribe button used to be orange

[MALSIV]

@ISwishAndFlick I know.

[Scripterrific]

@MALSIV It's on pogobat's channel. And it's not really orange, I'd argue that it's yellow...but fuck that button. New YT FTW!!!

[metalmania310]

@MALSIV lol. Welcome to Youtube.

[MALSIV]

@metalmania310 Thank you sir! \m/

[EnLitenSkejtare]

I'm positive towards china, they have good potentian to become a good country, whichever defines a good country.

[jesmurf]

E4 to E5

[Ace4929]

i dont want to sound pessimistic, but i think dan overestimates the connecting power of the internet. its just communication, and by extension organization, which is important, but communication wont fix everything.

[chopomo]

@Ace4929 But just having the ability to communicate allows us to fix things. Collective minds come up with numerous and interesting solutions.

[Ace4929]

@chopomo well, an interesting solution isnt necesarily the best one.

[chopomo]

@Ace4929 it doesn't exactly mean that it can't be the best one though, and honestly a solution is a solution. It would be best if the solutions were ideal ones, but as long as it gets something done it worked.

[Ace4929]

@chopomo 'as long as it gets something done, it worked'? thats not necesarily true. when stalin initiated the purges, it got a lot of murder done. im not saying that that will happen, however i am saying that while I dont doubt the internet's connective power, you will find that much of the internet is hatred

[chopomo]

@Ace4929 Lol getting all that murdering done as you put it was a solution to Stalin. He wanted someone dead, so he killed them off. A solution is a solution just have to look at it from the point of view that the solution comes from. In other words when i say if it got something done it worked it still holds true because it did work murder was Stalin's solution.

[Ace4929]

@chopomo I wasnt saying that it didnt do anything, i was saying that it was a horrible solution to a not problem.

[chopomo]

@Ace4929 But he himself saw it as a problem, and also saw it as a good solution. I think it is something you have to view from the point of the guy with the problem. You say it wasn't a problem, but to him it was.

[Ace4929]

@chopomo well, what was good for stalin obviously wasnt good for his people or the world

[wangabo123]

I see your back ;D

[rawrrachelle512]

honestly though, I'd die if they blocked Facebook and youtube here

[rawrrachelle512]

I live in HK and I go to china sometimes cos my dad goes there sometimes..and I found a proxy :D

[BigFudgeZING]

sup.

[whatcanidoiloveyou]

i live in china,but now im on youtube,so internet block is no use :P

[putzamoale99]

@whatcanidoiloveyou said the guy who was imprisoned 5 minutes later :)

[ShiJiahe]

Without prepared English subtitle, I think it could be so hard for a Chinese netizen to decode what you have said.

[zOMGLaserGunzPewPew]

The more important question is how Sophie in London can wake up her own country to the corruption of the government.

[sidgonnarock]

8 chinese govt. people !

:P

[PassionProjects]

很好！我最喜欢DanBrown因为他是非常漂亮。（very good! I like Dan Brown the most because he is extremely beautiful) 5th year of highschool chinese ftw

[whatcanidoiloveyou]

@PassionProjects 就是语速太快了。。听不懂。。

[burro451]

i think 1982 should be required reading for coming generations

[mrmyxlptlk]

@burro451 try 1984, first.

[IsisStarlights]

@burro451 It's 1984

[TheDanc1nghawk]

I don't like playing chess when I'm not in complete control. blarg.

[LukeMcBrick]

for next time, get rid of the mirror.. It was distracting...

[ThePupwiththeMost]

hmmmmm

[TheCosmopolitician]

Subscribe to him and click the oran-- GREY??!

[maggiehanna]

I hope that there is a Chinese Revolution at some point in my life time because I think it would really help them as a country move forwards and since they are such a large and powerful country, it would help the world move forward.

[Joshstamps]

@maggiehanna if China go to war with its self it would destroy the world in more ways then one.

[maggiehanna]

@Joshstamps I'm not saying necessarily a violent or military revolution but a social and political one. One that will grant the people of China more liberties and freedoms.

[christinecinco3]

this like has everything to do with what we've been learning in my history class for the past two weeks. i wasn't really listening and then i heard Big Brother is watching and i like died cause thats all my teacher has been saying since we started reading 1984 a few weeks ago (hes kinda crazy).

[KoolThing14]

What is with all the Youtubers filming in front of mirrors lately? Am I the only one recognizing this theme?

[qwertyoctopus]

I wish people would throw money-wrapped fruit onto my lawn...