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Great Firewall Becomes Greater
Jay writes "This article on Yahoo! mentions China's new restrictions on websites as of September 1st. Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions. It also forwards requests for search engines, like google, to less effective search engines. They also mention that this might just be temporary during a Communist Party Congress. Anyone have a mirror?"
A different AP article spins things slightly differently, emphasizing that Google is apparently no longer blocked in China and mentioning the selective blocking of web content only in passing.
i live in china... i just tried this search here:
link
and it gave me this list of links:
link 1
link 2
link 3
man, they are good. guess i'll stay.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
You can learn how to bypass the Great Firewall at Zombocom, a web site where you can do just about anything.
I pledge allegiance to the flag...
of the Corporate States of America...
Mao: "We have a population problem. Economic incentives to single child families and forced abortions to women carrying a second child are not enough."
Sung: "Well, we do have a monopoly on the world's Chinese women. Do you have any idea how many men world wide fantasize about them? They're HOT!"
Mao: "That's it! We'll get the men to fantasize about non Chinese women! We'll replace all the porn sites with sites advocating sex wit women most of our population will never meet! They'll lose interest in sex and spend their time working!"
Sung: "Brilliant! Get right on it!"
Mao: "You mean I have to implement it?"
Sung: "Or be hung for treason."
Mao: "Tech suppot!"
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
No they won't. That's part of what Tianemen Square was all about. That's life under a Communist regime. Consider yourself lucky not to be living there.
"That story" from 1989 better not get old. It represents all that China (and, arguably, Communism) stands for- oppression and dumbing down of its society so that they do not question the authority.
See:
Cuba
Russia
[Insert name of African country Here]
[FromTheMorning]
You know what? Fuck the Chinese.
If a populace is that complacent, where a couple of billion citizens can't manage to get together and overthrow their communist government, then they deserve every little bit of liberty they lose.
"Oh, but they like socialism" you say... ok, so then they probably don't have a problem with internet censorship. Fuck 'em.
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That's all well and good in a philosophical perspective, but there's a here-and-now, why would you sell tools that help limit freedom to people that are willing to drive tanks over their own citizens?
Why would you be willing to sell them ANYTHING? A lot of stink has been made over buying "blood" diamonds from Sierra Leone and Angola -- why shouldn't the money Cisco made from China be seen as "blood money"?