Americans And Chinese Internet Censorship

chowbok writes: "The Weekly Standard writes that despite expectations, the Chinese Government has been very successful in suppressing free internet access for their citizens. Key to this success was the assistance of Cisco, who built a giant firewall tailored to the state's needs, Yahoo (who helpfully censors search results and monitors online chats), and other Western companies."

Comments

everybody's a congolomarate

[Anonymous Coward]

Global One, Sprint-France Telecom-Deutsche Telekom joint venture

Reminds me of The Onion's Omnicorp...

Re:Why?

[volsung]

I propose we just make a moderation called "Stupid" that will be more multipurpose. Otherwise, we'll really need additional moderations like "Incoherent", "Axe-grinding", "Talking out of posterior".

Re:Simple

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, I do. But most of the time I only metamodelate. -- Jiang Zemin

Re:China is still reaching critical mass

[meggito]

No, democracy IS good in all situations and all places. Just go read the history books they give you in school. THe United States is never wrong. We didn't invade Mexico, they attacked us! We didn't destroy the way of life in the Philipines, we helped them grow as a country. The US is never wrong and democracy is always right. Damn that Marx fellow and all his clever ideas about working together for a common good. Damn that country that rules over a billion people and manages to do a good job. Its all bullshit commie lies.

Re:Chinese IP Space

[riflemann]

Considering the crap thats been spewing out of Chinese controlled IP space, I wouldn't be adverse to some reverse censorship. i.e. no chinsese IP's allowed in my network. The Chinese may not like what the NET has to offer their people, but they sure seem to dish out pretty silly stuff for the rest of us (My penis is much to big NOW, no more PLEASE).

All of the censorship and 'punishment' dished out to those who use the net for 'bad' things does have advantages in one way.

Next time you receive chinese spam, reply to it with something like this:

Thank you for the insight into your new Falun Gong group, and your proposal for increased awareness of human rights violations in China. We have sent the information requested to your house, and it will arrive within the next few days. Down with Chinese communism!

I think there'll be a lot less spam from that spammer after sending this!

SPAM access

[inicom]

If they're so successful at restricting access to the Internet, why are 10% of the spam sources and 8% of the hacking attempts against my servers from .cn domains?