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Chinese Internet Censorship Proves Difficult
An anonymous reader writes "BBC reports that despite incredible efforts by the Chinese government, online dissent and distribution of censored information continues and even influences government policies."
Just post the censored sites as links in Slashdot stories.
Censorship via the slashdot effect.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
"Filters are used to screen out items containing certain pornographic or politically sensitive terms"
See, if they had stopped at stifling free expression and political opinion exchange they would have been allright. They went after porn, and in technology, porn ALWAYS win. An army of horny men will find a way through their defenses like a knife through hot butter.We can help each other. We host the political dissent websites and they host the mp3s.
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If this Chinese gov't attempts to block access to IP addresses that run web proxies outside their control. I can report my own servers to China, so their Big Red Firewall can block all the spam I get from inside China!
2) Profit!
-Charles Hill
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Reminds me of back when most of my friends in highscool had two floppy disks with them at all times. One to disable netnanny, one to put it back. Oh the good ol' days.
That is indeed the good ol' days. In my day it took 8 floppies because the programs got so damned big.
Table-ized A.I.
get more credit cards.
or start wearig hiphop trousers with needless pockets in areas that don't get twisted.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
"Child-porn is universally 'illegal' for instance"
No, it is not.
On the other hand, ignorance is seemingly ubiquitous on slashdot.
I'd love to read about how censorship is failing in China but I can't access BBC from Beijing.