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China Regulates the Internet

Posted by michael on from the sun-rises-in-east dept.

The_Myth writes "The Sydney Morning Herald today published an article on China's regime to curtail the Internet. Basically they control the one gateway to the net from their country and screen anything they deem to be undesirable. Full Article is here. Are any other countries doing this?" Well, this is nothing new - China has been doing this for years, and periodically announces crackdowns, which is what I think this is.

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  1. So,.. by Anagon · · Score: 2
    How do you pronounce 'Carnivore' in Chinese / Mandarin?

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  2. Wall of Tears?? (or something) by SanLouBlues · · Score: 2

    Does anybody remember Mao at all? All the times people were encouraged to express themselves. There was always a crackdown. If I were in China, I would run like hell from any computers which were online.

    1. Re:Wall of Tears?? (or something) by Tackhead · · Score: 4
      Actually, the US solution is probably smarter - just as with Mao's "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom" - if you don't block your wackos, but merely let them think they're not being monitored, they'll continue to be wackos.

      You then accumulate reams of data on your subversives and lock 'em (and their friends) up, or infiltrate their networks with agents provocateur, or whatever you like. Carnivore with a hard drive (60G) instead of a ZIP disk (120M) would make this pretty easy.

      You Euro folks don't get snooty - on the other side of the pond, you just wade through the petabytes of stuff the Brits are collecting from their ISPs.

      China's doing it the old - and dumb - way. The problem with filters is that they don't tell you who's "loyal but curious about what those damn Falun Gong subversives are up to" and who the real activists are. Data collection, mining, and profiling does.

      The Western equivalent would be "give [your enemy] enough rope to hang himself".

  3. Controlling the only gateway SHOULD work... by 11thangel · · Score: 2

    At least until some crazy American smuggles a wireless net setup into the country. The most fitting quote i can think of is "The tighter you squeeze, the more star systems will slip through your fingers...". -Princess Leia, Star Wars

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  4. Re:Who says China is the only country doing this? by autocracy · · Score: 2
    That would be so impracticle as to be impossible. The US has such an incredible number of lines running out of the country via trans-oceanic fiber, landlines to Canada and Mexico, satelite uplinks, and then the trans-oceanic fibers running out of other countries that we have landline links to.

    So how do you propose that the feds would block access? Block one route, the whole internet dynamically changes to accomodate via RIP.

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