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The Great Firewall of China - Samples of Filtered Sites

Loligo writes "Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society has released a study listing some of the sites filtered by Chinese internet connections. Sites about Taiwan are maybe understandable, but Red Lobster?" We've mentioned the ongoing Berkman study before; one of their interesting findings is that the list of blocked sites is a moving target, and some sites are blocked only intermittently. Here are summaries from The New York Times and MSNBC, by way of The Censorware Project. Update: 12/04 21:03 GMT by T : Seth Finkelstein points to his report "Searching Through the Great Firewall of China," which "describes a simple technique which can be used with some search engines to bypass censorware bans on searching for forbidden words. Particular emphasis is placed on the situation of the Great Firewall Of China."

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  1. Red Lobster is obvious... by Nameles · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't want their children seeing prawn.

  2. Re:my site is blocked as well by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably because of your secret connections to Red Lobster.

  3. Re:Red Lobster? by RoboOp · · Score: 4, Funny
    maybe they think it is an attack on their communist government

    And why wouldn't they?

    Lobsters are commonly found in cold waters. This is symbolic of the cold war that the communists lost. Communism was founded by Marx in Vienna. Notice that Vienna is the same shape as a lobster's claw. Turn the first letter of the founder of communism's name upside down and you get a W - two V's. Just like a lobster.

    In addition, when a lobster is boiled they turn red, and then are consumed - by western capitalists.

    It's obvious that the communists saw through the thinly veiled allegory to the slanderous attack on their party and beliefs. The Red Lobster site is the western equivalent of 'We will bury you - in butter and lemon'.

    You would have to be a fool not to see it...

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  4. Re:is goatse.cx blocked? by spakka · · Score: 5, Funny

    No visible obstructions last time I looked

  5. Re:Huh? by dagg · · Score: 4, Funny

    His response made sense seeing as the original poster took the word "understandable" out of context. As a response, the word "filtering" was taken out of context. Get it? Somebody should now take something I said out of context.

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