China - We Don't Censor the Internet

kaufmanmoore writes "A Chinese government official at a United Nations summit in Athens on internet governance has claimed that no Net censorship exists at all in China. The article includes an exchange by a Chinese government official and a BBC reporter over the blocking of the BBC in China." From the article: "I don't think we should be using different standards to judge China. In China, we don't have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that's a different problem. I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. And I've heard people say that the BBC is not available in China or that it's blocked. I'm sure I don't know why people say this kind of thing. We do not have restrictions at all."

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That's a blatant lie

[azav]

One of my friends (some famous game developer) was messaging me from China on iChat.

I said to myself, "gee, I wonder if China really does censor material and boot people off the internet for looking at nonapproved material?"

So I sent him a jpeg of some hot naked chick.

"Blip!" His account was almost immediately disconnected.

Later, from another connection, he told me "thanks for being an asshole and getting me disconnected from the internet. They censor stuff over here ya know."

At least he now knows that I wield complete control over his internet connectivity as long as he stays in China.

MUAHAHAAHHAAAA.

In other news...

[SeaFox]

The U.S. says they don't censor news stories.