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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It worked for China

[HanzoSan]

China has stayed to itself for centuries, wasnt involved in any of the world wars, isnt out taking over the world, but China could do so if they wanted to.

911 only happened because we were in their country getting involved in their fight with isreal which has been going on for thousands of years.

I didnt say we deserved it, but isreal doesnt deserve the support we give it either, we are playing politics by picking a side in a never ending war, and this is why we get attacked by the other side.

If I see you fighting with someone and I give your enemy a knife, of course you are going to punch me in the face.

We arent the only bad in the world, every other country is bad too, the problem is we are spreading ourselves all over and other countries who dont want anything to do with us have to deal with us going to their countries telling them what to do, they have to deal with us giving their enemies weapons and intelligence on them, and deal with our companies exploiting their natural resources.

If China decided to flood us with millions of Chinese immigrants and the Chinese slowly consumed and took over the whole USA, taking all of the businesses, changing the flag eventually to the Chinese flag, and changing the whole culture of the USA to the point where the USA becomes part of China, how would you like it?

Thats what we do to other countries.