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Study Shows China Tightens Internet Filtering

Posted by Zonk on from the not-that-any-chinese-people-will-see-this dept.

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."

4 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Don't let this distract you by mi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from accusing "BushCo" of censorship...

    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  2. mod dOWn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    product, BSD0's lube or we sell

  3. Re:China Must Be Filtering This Article! by BlueCodeWarrior · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Calling out the mods is flamebait. You desere either that or offtopic.

    This post deserves offtopic as well, which is why I'm disabling my karma bonus.

  4. Clique Was:China Must Be Filtering This Article! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's all about user # and favoritism, check it out and compare: Two posts made a minute apart by two different users, yet one gets +5 Funny and the other -1 Flamebait. Both very similar in content, both cited the Nothing to see here content. The user with a lower user # gets the +5 Funny, while the user with the very high user # gets -1 Flamebait. There was NO reason to consider the -1 Flamebait for the original parent post, other than favoritism. There were no mods called out in the first parent post.

    But this will just get overlooked anyway, regardles, because favoritism prevails. All of this written in my opinion but rooted in fact. I've seen the same thing happen to me over and over which is why I stopped posting to /. because of clique elitism moderation goatse-like behavior.