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How Chinese Evade Government's Web Controls
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "China is moving to 'centralize all China-based Web news and opinion under a state regulator,' the Wall Street Journal reports, but determined citizens have found a way out of previous restrictions in what has become a cat-and-mouse game: 'Many Chinese Internet users, dismissing what they call government scare tactics, find ways around censorship. The government requires users of cybercafs to register with their state-issued ID cards on each visit, but some users avoid cybercaf registration by paying off owners. In response, the government has installed video cameras in some cafs and shut others. ... While certain words such as "democracy" are banned in online chat rooms, China's Web users sometimes transmit sensitive information as images, or simply speak in code, inserting special characters such as underscoring into typing.' Also noteworthy is that major portals seem to be cooperating with authorities' restrictions: 'Insiders who work for the big portal sites say they are already in regular contact with authorities about forbidden topics, such as the outlawed Falun Gong religious group, which their teams of Web editors pull off bulletin boards.'"
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The question is, which scares the Chinese government more? Democracy or porn?
And which will be more difficult to filter out?
Cogito Ergo Sum
Internet censors you.... wait a sec....
...speak in code, inserting special characters such as underscoring into typing.
And this will be known to the world as 'r33t 5p33k'
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...saving chinese freedom of speech, one haxor at a time
-- lol pwned
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HaHa. Take that Chineese government !
Leave the old continent in charge of these matters; after all France invented the universal declaration of human rights didn't they?
Sure. They did such a good job with the Barbary pirates. The French also invented the guillotine. Of course, we Americans invented the atomic bomb.
Interesting to watch my comment get modded up to a 5 insightful then modded down to a 2 with troll and overrated. I might agree with the latter. It's easy to point fingers at repressive countries. It's not so easy when your own country starts behaving like them. I must have pushed someone's button to be rated troll. I feel honored.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
I agree, this is the last straw that broke the camel's back. The dead horse is out of the barn and we must take the bull by the horns of the dilemna and run with it.
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
You certainly seem to have a "thing" for Bush's ass, don't you...
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