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?"

Comments

Re:Irony rears its head

[phatslug]

Maybe it is alluding to the fact that microsoft has voluntarily started censoring words. Hence an article written by a newsource that is owned by them may not mention things relating to these practices.

Re:Stop blaming companies

[daikokatana]

But if it IS legal to work 12 year olds 18 hours a day in some country, can you hold it against a company if they move there and do so?

I've always had my doubts about so called slave labour and child labour - I'm not for it but I'm not against it either.

Agreed, they work terrible hours, get no rights, and get paid very little - but if they didn't do the work, they would not get paid AT ALL.