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China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites?
Want to know why US web companies have trouble making it in China? gaz_hayes passed us a link to the blog commiepod, which suggests that successful US websites are targeted by 'Chinese government backed companies.' "These companies copy the site, deploy it on a .cn domain, and then DNS poison or forcefully lower the bandwidth the US site. Just a few weeks ago google.com and google.cn were DNS poisoned across the entire Chinese internet and were being redirected to their Chinese competitor Baidu. This probably explains Google's 3rd quarter market share in China." This is a fairly serious accusation; anyone else have first-hand experiences that would back this up?
and you know of the torture how, exactly?
we have to worry about China's attempts to manipulate the internet, not because we have to protect the profits of Google et al, but because even worse attrocities may take place if they know that the word won't get out.
No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.
Maybe one's favorite search engine is one that allows one to even find stories about things like Tibetan nun torture. You think unfettered Internet access in China is just a novelty with no serious purpose?