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China Plans Surveillance System for Internet Cafes
nasty writes "According to Interfax China, China will install a special surveillance system in order to prevent 'unhealthy information and websites'. All internet cafes in China will have installed the new system by the end of 2004. This according to China's Ministry of Culture (MOC). The system requires the customers personal information, such as name, age, and their national citizen identification number, before they are allowed to log onto the Internet." Reader Dr.Hair submits another blurb about the system.
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The mirror of http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=571
The mirror of http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parenti
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They're supposed to all have smard digital id cards soon (search google for 'national id china').
IANWYTIA (I Am Not Who You Think I Am)
They can prevent their citizens from using Google altogether. They already have in the past.
China blocking Google [september 2002]
Just like PATRIOT Act is very unpatriotic, or the No Child Left Behind Act has left more children with a poorer education.
It's easier to make the public swallow something bad when it hides behind a happy name.
The embargo against Cuba has nothing to do with himan rights. It is based on two factors:
1: Cuba is the only Communist state in the western hemisphere that America failed to overthrow.
2: There is a huge population of former Cubans in Florida that keep riding the governments ass about ending Castro's reign. Not that most of these people would ever move back to Cuba to save their lives.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
wake up and smell the coffee
Biometric identification
The new uk national id card will have biometric id built in.
The question is how long it will take before all ISP's will be obliged to collect internet usage data linked to the biometric id of the user.
Great for catching terroists
Great for controlling political activists as China proves
Total and absolute ending of freedom of thought.
Remember information is power, you can throw your guns, votes and education into the trash. The end of an anarchic golden age?
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
A very simple answer to your question would be: USA has self-interest to look after.
The USA foreign policy is to promote American interests, not really to promote human rights. While human rights are often improved, they are not absolutely necessary for US to act.
The trend started all the way back in American Spanish war. The war started as a war to ride Cuba of imperial power, but as American sons started dying, the nature of war turned into defending American investments in the region.
Look at Latin America. How many times had USA installed military government controled by US Navy Marines, in order to quench unrest? Why did not US allow free, democratic election? Why did USA allow dictatorship? It serves the American self interest.
If US really is a force striving for human rights around the world, why did US allow USSR to use military might to stop the unrest in Hungary in 1957? Because US recognized the USSR sphere of influcence in the region. Why didn't US intervene when China crushed the TAM tragedy in 1987? Because USA needed China to deter USSR.
A more recent exmple. Back in early April, Why did USA warn RoC against having a democratic referedum? because if RoC voted to change name to Taiwan, China would declare war on Taiwan, this would drag US in as well according to the Taiwan Relations Act. Is it in the USA interest to fight a war against China? Or is it in USA interest to shut RoC up and maintain a good relation with China? Appearently, it's the latter.
When comes to international politics, self interest rules surpremem over everythign else.
...We had to explain to her about the Communist's "Great Firewall of China" and how they block/inspect/proxy damn near everything.
I've heard this a lot, but personally when I've been in China I've found only one web site which I couldn't get to, BBC News. I found I could get to many other sites which I half expected not to be able to get to, including the rest of the BBCs site, CNN, NYTimes, and many others. Why they choose to block some sites, whilst leaving many others which you might reasonably expect to be blocked for similar reasons is beyond me.
Even these blocks didn't stop me, I just tunneled anything I wanted to access over SSH (which I was using heavily to access our servers anyway).
Not a very effective great firewall as far as I could see.
Actually it is rocket science...
I don't think there are a billion people in China who have the ability to fly in and out of the country. It's my understanding that the government places a lot of restrictions on travel. I visited China for a few weeks with a group of students. We had one tour guide that followed us throughout the country and other local guides for each city. But when we got to Guangzhou (Canton) our main guide had to stay behind. He wasn't allowed to take the train from there to Hong Kong. Our guide in Hong Kong elaborated, explaining that citizens of the mainland are generally not allowed to go to Hong Kong. Even members of the military base there can't leave the confines of the base in general (if they need medical attention, for example, they are flown to mainland China). I'm not familiar with their policies, but it would seem to me that they would prohibit travel to somewhere like the US without special circumstances (education for example).
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I have lived in Shanghai for almost a year and have had DSL access for about 7 months. So far, I have not had a single instance of any type of website blocked and I purchased my connection from China Telecom, the state phone/DSL co. I would agree that this is more of a scare tactic than anything else. In any event, most Chinese truly do not care. They consider gov't intrusions as simply part of life. Should be remembered that there is not much of a philosophy of personal privacy anyway in a country of 1.2 b. From my perspective, it is the rare Chinese (who has not lived abroad) who is interested in anything other than money.
I've been living in China for four years, and in my experience there are a few websites that are always blocked, and some that block and unblock at random. BBC News is always blocked. Free websites are always blocked (geocities, tripod, etc.). CNN and NYTimes have been blocked in the past, but are currently unblocked. The one I can't figure out is this: The Miami Herald is always blocked. I can't imagine what political stances that newspaper has taken to get itself blocked in China. Me, I just want to read Dave Barry.