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timothy
on from the favored-nation dept.
Lemmingue writes "China government is, again, restraining the access to internet. Ars Technica says they are now blocking the Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. How much time will it take for to Slashdot be blocked?"
Re:Speaking of blocking...
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Distinguished+Hero
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Um, what makes you think that Slashdot is blocked in India? I call BS.
By the way, most of the programming jobs are being outsorced to India, with extremely few going to China (manufacturing is a different matter).
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Only Chinese version of Wikipedia?
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a.koepke
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Having a look at the article text is states "Ten days ago the Chinese government blocked Internet access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia".
To me that seems to imply that the English version of the site has not been blocked. Can anyone confirm if this is true?
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Re:Slashdot not going to be blocked
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Wellmont
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Hehe but that's the draw back of living in a communist country, you never get to live arround or experience all your communist benefits. I hear a lot of people glorifying the communist ideals, even holding the authors of modern communism higher than the likes of Reagan, Lincoln, and Washington. Everything that you espoused as a benefit of communistic ideals is a part of "all" governments:
"community-owned" (I don't know of a country that doesn't say it's community owned.)
"from according to assets" (every person in the world will try to stay within their spending [including governments], but few succeed, least of all communist nations of the past.)
"to according to need" (Wikipedia is free, it is however based on a technology that is not free and we see this lack of freedom winning on all fronts on a daily basis [I'm still waiting for the internet to be "to according to need"].)
Wikipedia is a fine example of people working for the betterment of the world knowledge base, without pay. The people involved (including the companies) don't seem to want anything out of it other than slight recognition. Wikipedia is beginning to sound more and more like Francis Fukuyama's Democractic America (satisfying thymos while providing a public service) than Marx's Communist Russia.
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Um, what makes you think that Slashdot is blocked in India? I call BS.
By the way, most of the programming jobs are being outsorced to India, with extremely few going to China (manufacturing is a different matter).
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
Having a look at the article text is states "Ten days ago the Chinese government blocked Internet access to the Chinese version of the Wikipedia".
To me that seems to imply that the English version of the site has not been blocked. Can anyone confirm if this is true?
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*This is the cute bunny virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread
Hehe but that's the draw back of living in a communist country, you never get to live arround or experience all your communist benefits. I hear a lot of people glorifying the communist ideals, even holding the authors of modern communism higher than the likes of Reagan, Lincoln, and Washington. Everything that you espoused as a benefit of communistic ideals is a part of "all" governments:
"community-owned" (I don't know of a country that doesn't say it's community owned.)
"from according to assets" (every person in the world will try to stay within their spending [including governments], but few succeed, least of all communist nations of the past.)
"to according to need" (Wikipedia is free, it is however based on a technology that is not free and we see this lack of freedom winning on all fronts on a daily basis [I'm still waiting for the internet to be "to according to need"].)
Wikipedia is a fine example of people working for the betterment of the world knowledge base, without pay. The people involved (including the companies) don't seem to want anything out of it other than slight recognition. Wikipedia is beginning to sound more and more like Francis Fukuyama's Democractic America (satisfying thymos while providing a public service) than Marx's Communist Russia.