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The Great Firewall of China, Continued

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-country-shame-about-the-government dept.

rcs1000 writes "Slate (no longer owned by Microsoft, and therefore an acceptable place to find stories...) has a terrific article on The Filtered Future and how China's censorship is changing - for the worse - the Internet. The piece makes a few points: firstly, China is really trying (largely succefully) to seperate its Internet from the rest of the World; secondly, it may be possible to use technology to circumvent restrictions, but that makes them no less onoreous; thirdly, the sheer invisibility of the restrictions makes them worse (when Google doesn't even show up articles about democracy, that's no good thing); and finally, some Western companies are actively co-operating with the Chinese government in their censorship. Is this the beginning of the end for the global, unregulated, uncensored, Internet?"

5 of 484 comments (clear)

  1. fp? by boingyzain · · Score: 5, Funny

    yay i finally got the first po--This transmission has been CENSORED.

  2. Does this mean ... by concept10 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The Great Firewall of China"

    That the IP tables syntax will change from geek jibberish to simplified-Chinese?

    Damn, I will never learn how this CLI stuff.

  3. In Soviet Russia ... by BonoLeBonobo · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia ... ... there was no Internet :-)

    --
    Bonjour !
  4. Re:Well... by godders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Certainly:

    http://brain.cx/DNS-HOWTO/

  5. In Soviet Russia... by sita · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well there's this joke about someone sending a letter to his friend in Soviet, in the bad old days. He ended the letter with a note "I hope this letter gets through, in spite of the censorship". The letter was returned a few weeks later with a note attached: "This letter is returned as it contains false accusations against our country."