Slashdot Mirror
Geography, Laws, and the Internet
Sara Chan writes: "This week's edition of The Economist has the cover story and lead editorial devoted to how geography affects the Internet after all. The whole of China is basically firewalled. In France, Yahoo! is appealing the court ruling that banned its selling Nazi memorabilia. In Iran, ISPs are required to block immoral sites. Each country wants to impose its own laws on others, of course without reciprocation. The editorial concludes thus: "The likely outcome is that, like shipping and aviation, the Internet will be subject to a patchwork of overlapping regulations, with local laws that respect local sensibilities, supplemented by higher-level rules governing cross-border transactions and international standards." Not all new, but worth pondering."
Perhaps automatic censoring is the reason Chinese printed manuals sound so weird.
All your packet are belong to us!
My opinions are my own and do not represent those of Slashdot or any of the editors thereof. Don't pidgeonhole me.
I live in China, and the firewall is *very* obvious
I hear you can even see it from outer space.
Kill, Tux, kill!
I respect the lesson you learned in the Army, but those other cultures need to respect our laws and customs too when we aren't forcing them down their throats. If our customs dictate gigabytes of lesbian porn, so be it.
I think Canada must be firewalled, too. Every time I try to go to a page linked from Slashdot, I get a "server busy" error. Must be a conspiracy...
Keep in mind, the French were never that great at building impenetrable barriers.
I think I'll stop here.
If all the world leaders were trapped on an inflatable life raft, how long would it take before they decided to cut it up and distribute the pieces amongst themselves?
Sheck
I wonder what this message said *before* it went through!
-D