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China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
Screaming Cactus writes "Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the site. 'Chinese leaders encourage Internet use for education and business but use online filters to block access to material considered subversive or pornographic. Foreign Web sites run by news organizations and human rights groups are regularly blocked if they carry sensitive information. Operators of China-based online bulletin boards are required to monitor their content and enforce censorship.' The blocking added to the communist government's efforts to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, against Chinese rule."
Millions of spambots, what else? If they want a Great Firewall of China, I'm happy to help!
I'd encourage everyone to simply null route China's netblocks and enjoy the sudden decrease in criminal activity.
There you've hit an interesting point.
China is barking huge, and its population is equally on the large side (Ha! Fear my accurate numerical statements...). They can't just be mostly sheep with a few wolves running things.
I've known quite a few Chinese students, courtesy of the US making it harder for Chinese students to study there. This is great, it's brought vast, vast amounts of cash in from China to universities in the UK, thanks for that one guys..
Anyhoo, these Chinese people, while here, have just the same net access as anyone else, and they are for the most part, belonging to the middle to upper classes in China. Just the sort of people you'd think they'd want to keep ignorant (middle class people have started all revolutions in modern times), and yet they make no effort to do so.
Doesn't quite map, does it...
It seems to me we have a large amount of 'we don't really understand what the fuck is going on in China', that frequently gets combined with a bunch of preconceptions which are probably quite inaccurate.
This is where something like Usenet is still better than "The Web". It doesn't even require tcp/ip to function and therefore has no centralised control. With something like an NNTP server running on every phone, over bluetooth, it would be pretty much impossible to prevent the spread of information.
Walk past someone in the street and your phone syncs it's "newsgroups" with the other phone. The smartphones around these days are coming with 2Gb of storage and 300MHz processors. More than 100,000 are being purchased per day in China.
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Being a chinese , the life is very tough.
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the fact i can still get on the internet is something gratefully granted by the gov. i wouldn't dare to raise a trouble.
in china, any public voice that does not sound "harmonious" will be "harmonized". everything is for building a "harmonious society".
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many websites has been "harmonized", which have become a common practice..
youtube,
through some technical means the youtube site can still be reached, but that's only to geeks like me.
China, in fact, is very fragile.
all chinese characters i have typed here became dot...
i take it as a censorship
China, in fact, is very fragile.