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China's Battle to Police the Web

Posted by Zonk on from the losing-battle dept.

What_the_deuce writes "For the first time in years, internet browsers are able to visit the BBC's website. In turn, the BBC turns a lens on the Chinese web-browsing experience, exploring one of the government's strongest methods of controlling the communication and information accessible to the public. 'China does not block content or web pages in this way. Instead the technology deployed by the Chinese government, called Golden Shield, scans data flowing across its section of the net for banned words or web addresses. There are five gateways which connect China to the internet and the filtering happens as data is passed through those ports. When the filtering system spots a banned term it sends instructions to the source server and destination PC to stop the flow of data.'"

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  1. Just Like by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Gee, the Chinese are just like Comcast.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  2. Comcast by alta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is comcast acting as a consultant company for China? This sounds familiar.

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    Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
  3. Let's speed up this process by evil+agent · · Score: 1, Redundant

    My suggestion is to sabotage their filtering. Everyone should put key words and phrases like "Free Tibet" on every page on every site, regardless of the content. Then nothing will get through! That'll show'em...

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