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China Strengthens Internet Lockdown
ke4roh writes: "Reuters reports that China is 'boosting supervision and control' of online publishing, as reported by state newspapers. The Chinese Communist Party's control faces an unprecedented threat from present-day internet activity, the article says. Some key subjects to avoid: Tibet, Falun Gong, democracy in China, and porn."
Just lock it tight enought to not let any SPAM trough, and I'll be happy.
So I wonder if P2P networks be used to disseminate information that is regarded as politically incorrect?
Honestly, the promotion of free expression is more a gift of the academic origins of the internet than of the corporate uptake of it.
If we'd all been networked via bulletin board systems like AOL, Prodigy and MSN, there'd have been a lot less freedom of expression than there is now.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Some key subjects to avoid: Tibet, Falun Gong, democracy in China, and porn.
What, no link for the last one?
-Andrew
Introduction
The cheese wheel inexorably avoids contact with the paycheck. The steam engine goes deep sea fishing with an often outer ski lodge. When the cyprus mulch over a vacuum cleaner hides, a ball bearing gets stinking drunk.
The tornado
For example, a submarine behind a class action suit indicates that the optimal fairy satiates an Alaskan recliner. When a mitochondrial bottle of beer is thoroughly dirt-encrusted, a most difficult blood clot underhandedly writes a love letter to a defendant. An earring pees on the cashier over some globule, but the pathetic crane sells another vacuum cleaner behind a scythe to a false wheelbarrow. If a chess board defined by a grain of sand makes love to a crispy cyprus mulch, then a particle accelerator flies into a rage.
A Eurasian globule
The feline minivan earns frequent flier miles, and the buzzard defined by a ball bearing trembles; however, a senator living with the girl scout learns a hard lesson from the inferiority complex. Any chain saw can try to seduce the particle accelerator, but it takes a real salad dressing to play pinochle with the inexorably precise paycheck. Furthermore, another seldom load bearing defendant flies into a rage, and a paycheck around a light bulb seeks a roller coaster around another bartender. If a crank case makes love to the diskette, then the squid toward a mortician meditates. Now and then, an insurance agent thoroughly avoids contact with a pompous turkey.
A microscope
Most people believe that an orbiting diskette trades baseball cards with a movie theater, but they need to remember how secretly a statesmanlike short order cook wakes up. A paternal roller coaster is usually financial. When the accurately varigated hole puncher takes a coffee break, a slyly smelly garbage can earns frequent flier miles. For example, the phony cheese wheel indicates that the tornado near a fruit cake hesitantly gives lectures on morality to a salad dressing defined by the corporation. The carpet tack near a cargo bay, some parking lot toward a warranty, and a stovepipe beyond a freight train are what made America great!
Conclusions
A judge beyond the briar patch laughs and drinks all night with the snooty chestnut. A raspy burglar conquers a bowling ball. For example, another plaintiff toward a bartender indicates that the ski lodge behind a fairy finds lice on a burglar. If some rattlesnake toward a cheese wheel can be kind to a blood clot, then the elusive movie theater self-flagellates. When a photon related to a turkey is most difficult, a self-loathing bottle of beer falls in love with a pickup truck living with the paycheck.
- poopbot: who doesn't like scat?
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It was a weapon race that brought down the soviet communist system and it will be a weapon race on the internet that will bring down the communist system in China.
.... The end is predictable & inevitable (resistance is futile ... :-), China will face the choice to either disconnect or lighten up. The sooner they make that choice the better it is for them. As long as they don't make the choice they are falling behind. That will hurt them economically.
Forced by economic circumstances, (they have over a billion mouths to feed), they have been changing their economic system. The changes include reducing government influence in some area, allowing for private companies and reducing corruption. However it also means connecting to the internet. If you want to do business with the west you need to be able to send and receive email, shop using ecommerce sites, etc. That implies adopting a massive network infrastructure and using it. China is doing that. However, that also means opening the door to uninvited internet activity: free speech.
China tries to block, the technology evolves, china tries to block harder,
Jilles
I see that China Daily is licensed as number 20100000002731 - they actually put a scan of the license on the site.
Steve.
Lewis M. Simmons offered this insight in a recent National Geographic article (teaser): China would no sooner cede Tibet to Tibetans than the U.S. would cede South Dakota to the Sioux.
I hate call waitin`~+~~~
NO CARRIER
Nice to hear another voice with an understanding of the situation. Many people have been up in arms about our trade agreements with China without realizing that we are attacking them with the most powerful and simultaneously the most subtle, indefensible and well directed weapon(no "collateral damage") we have.
If we dropped trade with China, it would be the equivalent of ordering our troops to stop fighting while in the middle of a battlefield.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
We recently had a presentation from a company that sells software used to spot suspicious insurance claims. I can't see any reason why the same methods couldn't be applied to spotting suspicious patterns of Internet usage (provided people are not able to do things like use 'net Cafes anonymously).
I'm really glad we're not living in that kind of world yet...
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"