The Great Firewall of China, Continued

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?"

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[Black Parrot]

...a skateboarder has jumped the Great Wall of China on his skateboard. Brings to mind a certain saying about treating constraints as damage and routing around them.

BTW, think how different the world might be if the ancient barbarians along China's border had had skateboards...

succefully seperate onoreous -- spellcheck FFS

[1u3hr]

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

Three spelling mistakes in one sentence? Sadly, not unusual.

The Internet is not port 80

[Rogerborg]

Here endeth lesson 1.