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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?"

6 of 484 comments (clear)

  1. First post by fingerfucker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you dare censor me!

  2. Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hooray! London Bomb investigators have finally come up with the evidence they were planning to find linking Syria with the attacks!

    Yay! Now we can go steal Syria's oil too and hike up the prices again! I wonder what China will think though, since they are in an oil biz partnership with Syria.

    Oh and get ready to be drafted: there may not be enough troops to go around at the moment, especially after the next surprise terrorist attack someplace which implicates Iran...

    1. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Syria? I was convinced that they'd find evidence that would justify going after Iran.

      It's so obvious that even though the tragedy in London was most certainly carried out by a bona fide terrorist group (and not some Mossad or CIA operation, as some lunatics seem to think), any evidence will be tailored to justify the next war of "liberation" either in Iran or Syria. The time table is set as the withdrawal of the troops from Iraq is already being planned.

  3. In related news... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...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...

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  4. succefully seperate onoreous -- spellcheck FFS by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

  5. The Internet is not port 80 by Rogerborg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Here endeth lesson 1.

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