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China Closes 1,129 Web Sites
"The related departments have closed 1,278 illegal web sites and 114 sites promoting gambling, superstitious activities and cult propaganda according to the information provided by the informers. ... China's Ministry of Public Security rewarded a number of informers since China launched a nationwide campaign to crack downon the illegal on-line operations."
Something similiar is happening in Thailand: http://2bangkok.com/blocked.shtml
So how long until I can remove the block on a pair of CNLink's /20 networks from my firewall?
/20's.
My web server was getting massively log spammed from them (even though I don't publish my web stats). The first time round I actually bothered to report the attacks to their abuse address but naturally got no response at all. So the second time I got attacked I had no choice but to just drop all traffic from both their
When will these ISPs realise they're shooting themselves in the foot by forcing everyone to just outright block their networks?
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These people don't survive long in those prisons.
China oh China when will you give up, and be democratic.. so that you can kick our American financial butts?
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China Closes 1,129 Web Sites The related departments have closed 1,278 illegal web sites and 114 sites ...
how many sites were closed? Is it 1,129 as the headline reads, or 1,392 as the body states (1,278 + 114)
"...China's Ministry of Public Security..."
Sounds suspiciously like the "Ministry of Truth" from to me....
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China Migrating from Socialism to a Capitalistic Republic. America Migrating from a Democracy to a Capitalistic Republic.
> The related departments have closed 1,278 illegal web sites and 114 sites promoting gambling, superstitious activities and cult propaganda
Was Slashdot listed under "superstitious activities", or "cult propaganda"?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I'll see your American capitalistic republic, and raise you a corporate plutocracy.
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It's not so blatant to me. Change will come, but it will most likely come slowly rather than quickly, if for no reason other than China is a big country, with a huge population that enjoy a range of disparate lifestyles.
Sometime in our lifetimes China is going to become a consumer culture, consuming many of the goods that it already makes and exports to the rest of the world. My PDA was made in China. My keyboard was made in China. My colour laser printer was made in China. Can you see where I'm going with this?
Sooner or later, China's markets will open up to near Western levels. Chinese people will buy widescreen TVs, computers and designer goods. And when that happens, the gates will open too, albeit in a controlled manner. How strict those controls will be or how they will function is open to speculation but for over a decade now China has been becoming a more relaxed and less restrictive society.
Just because they have limits on internet access now that doesn't mean that they will always have limits on internet access. The US once had limits on the rights of blacks and women, yet it progressed from that point and China will to.
Don't forget, China isn't just a different country it's a different country with a totally different culture to that which we're familiar with in the West. Concepts that seem alien to us are natural to them, and vice versa. And, obviously, it's the negative aspects of Chinese society that always get played up rather than the positive ones.
And when it comes to things as subjective as human rights, please realise that there's an "eye of the beholder" aspect to be considered. You might regard China as being oppressive when it comes to religion or expression but there's not a country in the world that hasn't done the same at some time or another or that has its own human rights abuses going on right now.
So to recap, don't dismiss China as being stuck permanently on hold. China will progress and develop, but at its own pace and in its own time. Who knows when change will come and how suddenly. After all, the day before the Berlin Wall fell, or before Nelson Mandela was released, or any ground-breaking event, who would have predicted that such a radical change would come overnight?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
I'm afraid one of those is a little backward. Try this instead:
America Migrating from a Republic to a Capitalistic DemocracyIf you think America was ever intended to be a democracy, you are sadly mistaken. The founding fathers considered democracy to be the most vile thing they could think of, even worse than the Crown from which they separated. That's why they didn't set one up here.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
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Just try to be a true radical online ( or in real life ) now, advocating for the next revolution.. Outlining details techniques and equipment manufacture..
I'm always amused by comments like this on Slashdot. Come on--no government, however "free" the country is, is going to look kindly upon people who advocate overthrowing it. Just because a government was put in place by a revolution doesn't mean it would be perfectly happy with being overthrown by another one.
Please mod parent up. For details, please confer with article 4 section 4 of a little document I like to call "the US constitution"
http://www.constitution.org/cons/constitu.txt
we have a constitutional republic, it just turns out we've turned it into a democracy... aka the tyranny of the majority.
my last sig was too controversial... now, a new and improved useless sig!
The Chinese people have the same rights as Americans or anyone else. We all have the same rights. The Chinese government simply represses the rights of its citizens.
It is both wrong an very dangerous to think our rights come to us as gifts from our governments.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
You can't speak out against the government (the more I hear angry, uninformed EU and US Bush protesters, the more I think I might actually enjoy that), you can't openly practice religion (what?? no Catholic priest child molesters, no Christian wackos and their 10 commandments plaques, no Muslim fundamentalists to kill me?), and you can't have websites that spread superstition. And this is bad... how?
You have removed choices for me and for everyone else.
Perhaps you would like me to pick out your clothes for tomorrow. Better yet, I'll decide what kind of car you drive (if I decide you get to drive a car at all) and then I'll figure out if you are worthy of...?
We each make choices everyday. Whether they *seem* like small or large decisions, would you like someone else to make those decisions for you?
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