In the end, as many as two million people defied the authorities by gathering in Tiananmen Square, where they criticized the Gang of Four, Mao and the excesses of his Cultural Revolution.
"I want to emphasize that there is not a partisan position here," said Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, who joined two Democratic colleagues, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, at a news conference where they criticized the F.C.C. action.
Kenyans took to social media and created the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN where they criticized, ridiculed and mocked the network's misleading coverage.
Politicians will also play the blame game, where they will criticize colleges for increases in college costs and deflect their own responsibility for per-capita cuts in the inflation-adjusted buying power of federal and state grants.
Ever since the plan was announced, Mr. Cettei and a group of parents have attended school board meetings, where they have criticized the new dress code as unnecessarily restrictive and disruptive.
"In my workshop, introduction to fiction, I have a continuous process where they are writing, reading and criticizing their work," Ms. Oates said.
And a lot of women don't want to go into an arena where they are going to be criticized.
Cutts' issue is the apparent contradiction with an earlier post where I criticize Twitter for saying that they want to "be a force for good".
Where others criticize, we learn; what others discuss, we do".
Where to criticize is "to adjust a part to its due and harmonious relations with a whole".
