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Study Shows China Tightens Internet Filtering
Torrey Clark writes "China is the world's leading censor of the Internet, filtering web sites, blogs, e-mail, and online forums for sensitive political content, according to a study released Thursday. The OpenNet Initiative said that China employs thousands officials and private citizens to build a 'pervasive, sophisticated, and effective' system of Internet censorship. 'ONI sought to determine the degree to which China filters sites on topics that the Chinese government finds sensitive, and found that the state does so extensively,' said the study. 'Chinese citizens seeking access to Web sites containing content related to Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, the Tiananmen Square incident, opposition political parties, or a variety of anti-Communist movements will frequently find themselves blocked,' the report said."
Somebody had to say it.
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Sounds like they block everything but spam.
In America we are given the righ to free speach. And this is actually a dangious right to have. Free Speach can give ideas that people will miss interpreate and twist around, or give them ideas that could be harmful to society. It is a risk that us westerners take for advantage. But other cultures see it as a danger and feel that they should limit speach thus reducing the risk. It it two sides of a simular issue. Do you take the risk of free speach or help control the risk with censored information. I feel that free speach is a good idea because it will lead to growth vs keeping the same. But the risk is always there.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Chinese Content Filtering Service is Most Effective in World.
Dateline - BizarroWorld.
A new study, released today, has confirmed that Chinese content filtering technology is the most effective in the world. Despite the early entry of many US companies into this market, the Chinese have come from behind and have surpassed all US efforts. Film at eleven.
How else would they support their thriving piracy industry? Think before you type in future!
China employs thousands officials and private citizens to build a 'pervasive, sophisticated, and effective' system of Internet censorship.
but it seems to me that there is a chink in their armor here. how does the government determine who is allowed to determine what is allowed to be viewed? employing thousands of people for the task of limiting the viewing capabilities of all the others doesn't seem very effective to me. what's stopping any one, or more, of them from building in a backdoor for themselves? from visiting "dangerous" sites? i'm sure there are very strict, probably painful, penalties for such actions, but it comes back to the question brought up earlier: qui custodiet ipsos custodes?
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde
So the question arises, should countries, with their own values, be able to determine what content their people are exposed to? For example, can China declare communism is best, and ban all websites promoting capitalism? Can Iran declare western film evil, and ban all websites with western film content?
Yes! They can and they do. But, perhaps most inersting, is that their governments and laws are not swayed by the opinion of Slashdotters. Weird eh?
I am sure they can get to Walmart.com
But, General Tsao makes better chicken than Colonel Sanders.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Thank God. Sometimes I think there is more inbreeding at Slashdot than in the British Royal Family.
I can just imagine if Slashdot was a government. They would ban Microsoft, everyone would have to have linux, although there would be a sect of the government pushing for BSD. Government TV would only show Wierd Science and Real Genius, back to back, and forever! And every pending bill would have 10 amendments attached by anonyomous cowards. Wait, that last part sounds like the USA government.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
ok, first off id like to start by saying...
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and secondly,
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so you see, this is why we must rise up and welcome our new [this post has been filterd to remove all useful content...] overlords!
Noone writes jokes in base 13!
*POOF*
(Somewhere in China)
Nerd: "HEY Where did Slashdot go?"
Official: "No such thing, No Slashdot! now come with me to slave labor prison work camp, where we make toxic toys for American children!"
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
Is there a one can try it out? It can be pretty intresting for someone living out of china to check what it is like.
:).
Some kind of chinese proxy maybe that follows the rules from the chinese goverment?
P.S Yep, it is in our blood. If we're not oppressed, than we have to know what it is like.