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Outrunning China's Web Cops
conq writes "BusinessWeek has an interesting story on an outfit, DIT, that provides people in China access to censored sites. To do this, 'the company distributes software, called FreeGate, which disguises the sites a person visits. In addition, DIT sends out mass e-mails to Chinese Web surfers for clients such as VOA, which is banned in China. The e-mails include a handful of temporary Web addresses that host off-limits content and springboards to other forbidden sites.'"
So while you opted in, that is true, there's no guarantee that you still won't received unsolicited commercial email.
The same could be said of thousands of mailing lists, news mailings, job lists, and other mass mailings that people want to receive. I see no real reason for your fatalistic attitude toward this, especially given the measures that VOA has to take each day to ensure that their emails continue to penetrate the Chinese firewall.
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I once taught a class in which I demonstrated how to bypass Chinese firewalls. One idea was to set up a changing ring of proxy servers. The proxies would not be banned and would allow the Chinese users to reach, say, CNN. You submit a URL (to a banned site) to the proxy, and the proxy would return the contents of the banned site. The contents would reach the Chinese user because Beijing does not ban the IP address of the proxy and does not even know what the IP address of the proxy is.
Most of my students in that class were mainland-Chinese students.
There was, indeed, a "Bill" in my class. Is he the same "Bill" who is using the Internet to defeat Beijing?
I had another idea, but I did not reveal it to my students. The idea involved guns, explosives, and walking across the Tibetan border. The idea was a bit too revolutionary for my students.
That was never my point. Moreover, it is factually incorrect to state that communism is or was designed to work as a political ideology for states. It is an anarchistic movement. Indeed, there are many 'libertarian communists' who subscribe to the ideal of maximizing interpersonal freedom while maintaining strict communal living. In essense, making sure that everyone has their needs met and can actually enjoy it.
After all, I am strangely colored.
The biggest problem with American voters is that the dufuses in Florida couldn't use their bingo blotters to mark the ballot. We've never really elected a present anyway. There's this thing called the electorial college and they're the ones who really pick the president. We thought all you folks overseas knew that.
Besides, if we suck so bad, how come all the people from everywhere else keep coming here?
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Wow the bleeding heart Americans/Westerners who die at nite thinking how much the Chinese are suffering. Except that most Chinese know that folks like you are big assholes/thugs who's only interest is to remove the last protection that they have, their government (no matter how harsh it is). I can bet that Chinese are much better off than when US and Britain used to run drugs there and condemn tens of millions of Chinese to miserable lives that finally led to the Boxer wars. The Chinese people do know one thing for sure, that its better to be ruled by Chinese dictators rather than US thugs. Those days are over so grow up and accept the reality. And by the way, going by how much the Chinese are competing with US (tv and radio are abuzz with such news) and how much XYZmart sells "made in china" stuff in the US, its obvious that without the cheap chinese goods and their style of governance, half the American consumers would be dead. And it does not surprise me that for every 1000 scums like the parent, there is not even one protesting against the brutal exploitation of deadly-cheap labor that american/european enterprises indulge in these 3rd world countries. Who's for 10 times wages to the Chinese and Indian and Pakistani laborers paid by US corporations? Not here in slashdot.
Dude, just to let you know, he's american. I can spot him from a mile away. I'm American myself. And I'm not giving up the opportunity to mod you troll because you're pointing out the parallels between our democratic society and that of a communist one, I would've modded you troll for being so ignorant as to think that we Americans don't already know.
Americans are smarter than you think, some of us anyway. Most the smartasses you see making comments like the one you're criticizing are exactly that: intelligent, sourly satirical Americans pissed about the situation their government is putting them in and the fact that there's not really anything they can do about it. Fixed elections, politically controlled media, no responsibility for actions in the executive or legislative branch, shit's going downhill and half of us know it. We're just smart enough not to depress ourselves over it like most of you european pussies who mope and bitch about every little fucking thing.
Get one thing straight from now on, Americans aren't stupid, ignorant or weak in any way, shape or form. But we are stubborn, cocky and rude.
Of all the Universal Constants, here's one I know: Nice guys finish last