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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
  -- Daniel Webster



Sunday, August 04, 2013 :::
 

In 2010, two Indian entrepreneurs founded a website called I Paid a Bribe. The website invited anonymous postings of instances in which Indian citizens had to pay a bribe. By August 2012 the website has recorded more than 20,000 reports of corruption. Some Chinese entrepreneurs tried to do the same thing: They created I Made a Bribe and 522phone.com. But those websites were promptly shut down by the Chinese government. The right conclusion is not, as the logic of Li would suggest, that China is cleaner than India because it has zero postings of corrupt instances whereas India has some 20,000 posted instances of corruption.
That's not the only interesting part of this piece on democracy and corruption, but it strikes me as a point worth repeating once in a while.


::: posted by Steven at 8:20 PM


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