China Censoring Flickr

An anonymous reader writes "It would appear that the Chinese government is currently censoring all photos on the site Flickr. A notice has been posted in a Flickr help forum about this, but the service currently doesn't have a fix for this. It would appear that China has turned on their Golden Shield Project to censor the site. 'Jain Hua Li, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, said he hadn't heard of Flickr until told about it in a conversation with a Chronicle reporter, and then suggested that the blocking may be because Chinese authorities are trying to protect children from racy images. Lucie Morillon, the U.S. representative for Reporters Without Borders, a French group that promotes free expression, said that the Beijing government often censors Web sites under the guise of protecting children or national security. She called the blocking of Flickr "one more blow against the free flow of information online by Chinese authorities" and added that it is particularly lamentable in light of promises by China to loosen restrictions before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.' Thomas Hawk has a well-considered opinion to offer on this issue."

Comments

Real censorship in China, violence and guns

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

But don't forget. Amerika is evil, not China.

China ... is just peachy. As is "we have the right to nuke you all to hell" Iran. "We use chemical rockets, but we don't have WMD's" Saddam, and a few others.

Don't forget, it's Bush who is evil. Not China, not Kim Jong Il, not Ahmadinejad and his islamic cleric band, and not "I like to gas non-arabs" Saddam. Those are excellent, moral human beings. And let's not forget Assad, Saudi Arabia, the palestinians, the pakistani's, and quite a few other, very moral, human beings.

Obviously someone who provides religious justification for mass slaughter is a moral cleric, who just "has different values" from us (islamic values, something like 9/11 ?), and we should respect that.

you have asperger's syndrome

[circletimessquare]

you're good with numbers, but not human beings

say this quote:

Totally. Even today. When 3000 americans die, it's the worst terror attack in history. When 300,000 iraqis die, it's collateral damage. What do you call that if not relative?

person a:
i don't get much sleep, and i fall asleep at the wheel of a truck. it smashes into a busload of children, killing 10
person b:
i carefully plot the bus route of a schoolbus, taking note of the best time and place to ram it to kill children, i do so, killing 2

according to you, person a is worse than person b (numerical comparison alone). which is of course, nonsense

to believe this is somehow a valid comparison, numerical alone, reveals you to be profoundly socially retarded in your ability to evaluate what happens in the world. the magical concept your mind is missing of course, is intent. in all legal systems aorund the world, they have different categories of criminal law for manslaughter and murder. because all human cultures understand the value of intent when making judgments on people. you don't

but that's only because you have a psychological problem: asperger's. you're probably brilliant in certain mental exercises, like 3 variable calculus, tha tmost people would fail at. but in social efforts, you're retarded

I have a solid dislike for white anglo-saxon protestants with a subscription to righteousness, yes. :-)

well good for you. we're talking about universal human principles, correct? so according to you, if a WASP were to righteously proclaim that rwandans deserved UN proteciton in 1994 from genocide, you would dislike him. does that follow?

is it your position then that human principles need to be relaxed when you leave the west? therefore, according to your rationale, that WASP has more rights to life and liberty than say a ugandan. because god forbid anyone in the west righteously pass judgment on a horrible situation there, correct?

that's a funny way to show your dislike for WASPs. by supporting a POV that says they have more right to life and liberty than a nonWASP. one would think if you dislike WASPs so much, you would support rights for people other than them, no ;-)