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Googling Behind China's Great Firewall
xcham writes "The OpenNet Initiative, a joint project of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, and the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge, have released a bulletin regarding the type of filtering applied to Google by the Chinese government. Most notably, certain keywords are filtered, as well as Google's 'cache' function. More information on how the keyword filtering is implemented is available in a previous bulletin."
Really? Why is it that I can never access the San Jose Mercury news web site when I am in China, regardless of where the connection originates from?
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
FYI:
"Can You See The Great Wall of China from The Moon?
For some reason, some urban legends tend to get stated and never disappear. This legend even appears as a erroneous Trivial Pursuit question. The legend? Many are familiar with the claim that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space or from the moon with the naked eye. This is simply not true. From a low orbit of the earth, many artificial objects are visible on the earth, such as highways, ships in the sea, railroads, cities, fields of crops, and even some individual buildings. While at a low orbit, the Great Wall of China can certainly be seen from space but it is not unique in that regard. However, when leaving the earth's orbit and acquiring an altitude of more than a few thousand miles, no man-made objects are visible at all. NASA says, "The Great Wall can barely be seen from the Shuttle, so it would not be possible to see it from the Moon with the naked eye." Thus, it'd be tough to spot the Great Wall of China or any other object from the moon. Furthermore, from the moon, even the continents are barely visible."
this is the site which shows the mirror image of corresponding Google page.This gets u thru the great chinese firewall :))
fifteen jugglers, five believers
Name one right the government has taken away from you in the last 4 years. How about the fourth amendment. Go read the patriot act section 213 for more.
Here is a wiki which discusses abt the Internet censorship in China
fifteen jugglers, five believers
All the chinese goverment is doing is fooling themselves.
People will notice in the course of daily conversation that certain words when typed won't go through and they will improvise. Soon a whole sub-language will develop and the goverment will be back at square 1.
I'd ask my housemate from China about it, but i can't articulate this sort of topics very well in Chinese.
Sometimes I wish I was a plumber, then I'd know how to deal with other people's shit.
Talk about censorship going out of control.
Triangle Boy is/was a anonymous, encrypted proxy system that had a distributed structure. Anyone could run one, and publish it's IP. I think you can understand why the Chinese gov't would want to block people from finding it.
I don't know if it still exists, but Google brings up lots of (old) links.
Personally, I use SSH to tunnel to a remove private Squid proxy to get around evil corporate firewalls/filtering. I don't know if SSH would work from within China or not though. It would probably be dreadfully slow though.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
As an aside, I set up a simple unencrypted squid proxy on a box in the USA, and whenever I encounter "the block", I just hit F12-x in Opera, and reload the site. The simplest of proxies will defeat the Great Firewall.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!