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China Blocks Bloggers' Sites
JollyGoodChase writes "Not only are some some sites blocked in China, but according to NewScientist.com so are blogs. One anonymous Chinese blogger on a US site on Sunday: 'I know that a lot of Chinese people have blogs and that they will not be pleased to see their personal journals taken away for unknown political reasons.'"
You read too much slashdot!
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Considering the people who have been picked up, beaten, and killed in custody after officials objected to their internet activities, a few blogs getting blocked seems almost quaint. Deaths in custody are serious problem for Chinese detainees. The real problem of course is not usage of the internet but the expression of "subversive" thoughts and ideas.
A Harvard project has been studying the pattern of official site blocking, up until the Chinese gov't figured out a way to block them.
The U.S. does not seem to have a focused policy in surprise, and for many years our presidents have been reluctant to comment on human rights abroad in our political or economic allies. I think President Carter, whatever his merits of demerits, who was the last one willing to make a stink about it.
Guess who didn't RTFA :). (The F stands for Fluff right?) It mentions the Harvard project, and that they've been blocked, rendering them unable to confirm the reports of blog blocking.
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I woulda thought you had enough karma. For shame....
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
In Soviet China, government writes about blogs.
Only in slashdot are posts of solidarity modded at -1 Redundant, while posts of antagonism are modded as -1 Flamebait.
Maybe they should just block Slashdot, to improve worker productivity... ;)
I mean, can you imagine what would have happened if Anne Frank's diaries had gotten out before Normandy?
Glog!
Actually, the Harvard comment was just a one-sentence side comment, not the point. RTFC. ;-)
Every time I read the word "blog" I feel like putting on boots and stomping on baby kittens.
It's about the stupidest word ever. There's not even a clear definition. As far as I've ever been able to figure out, a "blog" has to be:
-A Website
-Updated Sometimes
-The Updates are displayed in reverse chronological order
Which makes half of the internet a "blog." Take out the requirement that it's a website, and newspapers and magazines would be "blogs" too.
It's a stupid, dirty word.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
http://www.sinosplice.com/chinablogs.html
It's already not a news.
Hooray for China. Bloggers suck!
Mommy, I don't like how some of the words other people use sound! I hate it because I don't know what they mean, and I'm too lazy too look up where it came from!! And it sounds funny!! Like all those creeps with weird latin sigs. I'm so angry, I could kill things!! I really wish everyone would talk how *I* wanted them to talk, because the very idea that my ideas about language aren't law drives me nuts. For instance, why don't more people capitalize the word "Updates" in the middle of a sentence? Well, none of that "blog"-talk for me, because I'm the ONLY cool Tim, anywhere, and my mommy is going to wash your websites out with soap!
...you're an 'evildoer' if you're using words that sounds funny!
I don't want there ideas (read spam) either...
I'm suprised that they are simply pulling access, and I wonder if there is more to it than the story tells. From past actions I would think that they would want to control and censor blogs rather than simply pull all access. Anyone have additional info?
"Powers. I have them."
Now I'm stuck with just reading about what Americans had for lunch today.