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Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China
gzipped_tar contributed a link to Moonlight Blog, which says that "SourceForge, the world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to be blocked in Mainland China. The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which will begin on 8 August. Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008. The project's developer said that the action is not against Chinese people, but against Chinese government's repression against Tibetan unrest earlier in this year. SF.net has once been banned by China in 2002. However, the ban was lifted later in 2003."
gzipped_tar adds: "As a SourceForge user in Beijing, I can confirm this first-hand. I also tried traceroute to sourceforge.net, only to find the connection being dropped at a Beijing ISP's gateway router. It appears that the projects' respective homepages are available even if they are hosted by SF, but the summary and download pages are blocked."
(As you probably know, Slashdot and Sourceforge share a corporate overlord.)
at the DNS entry?
Could you just enter the hex of the IP instead of the DNS name?
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SourceForge blocks China
This puzzles me.
I rather like notepad++, and use it constantly. I haven't noticed anything about this.
Mind you, I have been wrapped up in coding and haven't been following the China thing.
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... and yes in the "blocking freedom" event, China has already taken the gold!
FLR
Recently I read that people were arrested and/or beaten because they didn't promote the Olympics. Is it strange that the chinese govt blocks EVERYTHING that protests against it?
Why would we care if a utility site like Sourceforge is blocked? These kind of things influence the China based companies that want to use open source utilities directly. People get annoyed, annoyed people complain. It saves us the hassle of providing the network traffic to that country, and do we really want to answer 'Chinese' informed questions? I wonder how much Chinese projects are hosted on Sourceforge...
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I can see politics entering a free for all site like Slashdot, but Sourceforge??? While I personally think it's disgusting that China even GOT the Olympics and find their regime and it's actions reprehensible, there are proper forums for such matters. Sourceforge isn't one of them.
If there are posts on Slashdot advocating for the boycott of China and the Olympics, would the government block access to Slashdot?
Yes, this is a test.
I heard those lousy pirates in China were downloading files from that site without paying! Another victory in the war against copyright infringement!
Correct me if I'm wrong... but doesn't open source software share some of the same essence as Communism? Everyone working together towards a common goal overseen by a dictator (or Benevolent Dictator for Life in the case of OSS).
Seems to me that China is shooting its own values in the foot.
How about the British government? Or the USA's government? All things considered, I don't see how the government most open about their bad behaviour is the one most worthy of this.
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The latest Internet Explorer beta now uses the great firewall of China as a proxy (enabled by default)
I just loaded sourceforge.net from Beijing. Admittedly I'm in a hotel, but my connection appears to otherwise be filtered like all the others I've used in China, so I don't imagine there's anything special about this case.
So, perhaps I'm just lucky, or perhaps it's not really blocked...
at the DNS entry?
Could you just enter the hex of the IP instead of the DNS name?
Don't know why i can still download from sourceforge.net, maybe just because i'm using ultravpn. it's like in the emirates where people prevent you to watch porn because you're a bad guyHow does Notepad++ boycott the 2008 Olympics? Did they institute some kind of check to not allow Chinese ISPs to download it, or is it all just attention whoring?
"The project's developer said that the action is not against Chinese people, but against Chinese government's repression against Tibetan unrest earlier in this year."
This sounds like an inflated sense of self-importance to me.
who modded me troll, and WHY?
The Olympic Brand is in very serious trouble
good to wr1te you ThaT comprise
It's ok. China steals Microsoft products, some people there use Linux, and Google makes money ratting out dissidents.
Anything and everything can be overlooked so long as it helps us in our quest to destroy Microsoft (and then all other commercial software).
It was one project page, notepad++. If a person wants to protest on their own personal project page, that's a perfect place to do it.
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If they ban us from the first olympic video games we are totally screwed
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I agree
The olympics is one of the few things the entire world does together, regardless of ethnicity. People all over the world work hard to compete in them, and despite the competition between each other the entire world works towards one goal.This is a tradition that can be dated back to the time of the Romans.
In a sort of way it unifies everyone, and I find it stupid that anyone would boycott such an event because of their own beliefs. If you have a problem with what the government is doing then do something more political. What really is going to come out of boycotting the Olympics? Do you think the freaken government is going to go "Oh you're right, we're sorry now", or do you think the government will repay the people? It's not going to happen that way, I'm sure.
You just end up sounding like an ass, in my opinion.
Hey, what's next? Should we all boycott the One Laptop Per Child group?
A week ago I sent the following email to Don HO, creator of Notepad++. It's germane to this discussion, so I'll post it:
Have you boycotted all US olympics since 1983 because they have refused to recognize the sovereignty of Hawaii, a belief expressed by modern-day scholar and Hawaiian Native daughter Haunani-Kay Trask?
The reality of Tibet is that the Dalai Lama's brand of Bhuddism[sic] is more seeded in feudalism than freedom. You would do well to read the following: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
If you were at the bottom of the current hierarchical system in tibet, perhaps you would see things differently. If the dalai lama were a true change-agent for the oppressed, he would work toward changing this caste-like system and instructing his slaves that bring him his dinner or wash his toilet to go out and wash the toilet of the less fortunate. I certainly have much more respect for Haunani-Kay Trask who believes in equal freedom for all her native people than I do for the [recursively]-anointed Dalai Lama.
America likes to disseminate propaganda, and they have are the leading voice when it comes to communism. Anytime they can take a swipe at China they will do so, even though China has a strict non-intervention foreign-policy when it comes to military (compare that to US bases in over 50 countries). Read Bill Blum's Killing Hope for a real eye opener.
Regardless of all this, if you still chose to believe what you want to believe, you aren't offending chinese, you're offending the olympians who have trained their whole life and are thinking to themselves, "What can I do? Why are all these people so upset?" It isn't good karma, but hey, do what you want.
The olympics should bring unity. Not division.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for your [passion], honesty, sincerity, and generosity with notepad++ and all that you do. It's nice to see someone who really cares about other people.
cheers!
Ed
I like to keep abreast of IT issues I like this site for reference. I'm not an expert or a blogger, but have a daughter living in China, who recently started having problems with gmail and chat. Her issues are on and off and the Great Firewall seems to be heating up once again. The good side is as soon as a site is blocked someone finds a work around and as the great communities such as this one get the message out on how to deal with it. Their voices will not be stopped!! technology has made that possible!
...it's a pitty the Chinese have no oil but nukes?
I'm tempted to put up pro-Tibet / anti-Chinese government things on my website just so they block me. Maybe it will help cut down on hacker attempts and spam email.
Spread a good message and hinder the jerks.. it's win-win if you ask me.
My work's IT blocks it because "IT does not want employees to be dowloading freeware/shareware". Of course, this means that we're forced to set up a proxy or download the same programs from less reliable sources.
Regardless of how you feel about Tibet, everybody should just boycott the Olympics if only for all this censorship.
I work for a webhosting company. So many of our Chinese customers have started having their sites blocked by the Great Firewall. I'd guess that the chinese government, like all makers of censorware, just goes overboard. For some reason, you can have someone make a blacklist that only blocks the worst of sites - browsing the web in China must be comparable to using the internet in a US High school.
I'm not sure what these sites got blocked for - they're all written in Chinese.
> Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008.
How does a source code editor "boycott" something?
(Seriously -- I have no clue what the poster is trying to say here.)
Also, compounding my confusion, the grammar makes no sense. Is the word "start" supposed to be "started" or something?
I'm uninstalling Notepad++ until the author bans all countries that do bad things.
Oh wait a minute...
Very sad. Olympic tourism is way down. Might be a grand show, but no one may watch it.
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How often do I have to say it ? To hell with the Chinese government. They punish their own, then expect us to shake their hand and play nice ? They promised the IOC things would change for the better, then days after they secured the 2008 events, they turned around and bragged about how they were going to eliminate the Falun Gong movement, the Dalai Lama and the muslim separatists. So why the fuck are we still letting them host the olympics ? Does no one remember Moscow 1980 ?
I've boycotted Chinese IP ranges for years, and I'm boycotting the Beijing Olympics. What that country needs is a coup d'état, and the Chinese people need to know the rest of the world will take side with them when the walls fall.
Every nation is guilty of crimes against humanity, but at least the others have the decency to bow their heads and lie about it. The Chinese gov't parades around, flaunting their total disregard for equality. I don't see why we should tolerate it.
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I wish the US would just completely firewall China out. No useful email or websites come from there. The only things that ever come across the internet from China are spam, worms, viruses, and malware.
Stop spreading rumors if you have no reliable sources. Your stories would be more believable if you said people were arrested because they were anti-Olympics.
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Yeah, kill one million people in Iraq, that's how US gov't stands for the ideal of freedom.
By the very principals governing the organization of open source projects, even for the anarchists, this instance of some members of one project acting and causing the entirety of source forge to be blocked is absolutely inappropriate. It is a clearly communicated and clearly known policy that has instituted the block, so all actions leading to the violation of that policy were directed at causing that block. Those people have have decided to take from the other projects had no authority to do so.
Oh the humanity...
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What the Notepad++ author does violates SF.net rules. It is clearly mentioned in the documentation that you are not allowed to use the services provided by sourceforge to promote political causes.
They are for software development ONLY.
And that's a sensible rule, otherwise SF might end up hosting more political propaganda than open source software, because most projects never get anywhere but everyone has an opinion.
Other problems are issues like this. Certain political statements are downright illegal in many countries, and that includes a region of the world were a very large part of the SF.net dev community is located: the European Union.
Websites which contain "hate speech" might be blocked and might even face criminal persecution.
E.g hosting a website which states that the holocaust might be hoax = jail.
Any chance that someone would like to suggest a way to get by this? It's most certainly blocked from here in northern China...
It is interesting to note that this action by the developer, thought not intended to hurt the people, is going to do nothing to hurt the government, and everything to hurt the people.
One application, which it is likely that most Chinese people don't use, is causing nearly all users of the internet in China to be blocked from a wonderful source of software that many more Chinese and foreigners alike will use.
I would like to urge the developer to look not at his/her own right to protest, which the developer has, and look at how this affects the person on the street.
Are the Chinese people going to rise up in arms because they cannot connect to Sourceforge, not likely.
If the developer will not do it himself then I would encourage Sourceforge itself to remove the offending page.
I will be the first to admit that these are my opinions and that many may disagree, but as a sourceforge user in China I am really bummed out that I will not be able to access sourceforge until who knows when, though the developer or sourceforge has more ability to know, if they take some form of action.
My two cents!
I think that banning the entirety of SourceForge.net because they have an issue with statements made by one of our projects is like killing a fly with a garage door. The URLs at SF.net are not that hard to parse.
Clearly, the Notepad++ admins accept the risks of making the statement that they make, and they think it's worth it. Would the other 180,000 project admins make the same choice? Should the Chinese community really be denied access to all of the other projects? I guess all I'm saying is that *if* China is going to censor, perhaps they could be a bit more selective.
I know what you're thinking: "Doesn't that mean SourceForge.net should be more strict about removing political statements from project data to protect access for everyone in China?" Some people might think that's a reasonable thing to do. But what then? If, for example, Microsoft decides to make IE stop working with SourceForge.net because they find anti-Microsoft sentiment on the site, should we censor that, too? Not if I have anything to do with it...
(Disclaimer: I represent SourceForge.net, but this post is just my opinion.)
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at the DNS entry? Could you just enter the hex of the IP instead of the DNS name?
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...Even though the notepad++ is great on its own, it was this particular event that landed them a donation from me. I figure any small open source product that can get a whole -- hugely useful -- web site banned in China is easily worth a few bucks.
Well then why not trying to defeat china by its own weapons, and let it cut itself /.), but this should stop most attacks on western government run machines.
/. should be blocked within seconds, no chinising of /. anymore
..
off the net(or even blocking
here it comes
a.) Free Tibet
b.) down with the one-party-system
c.) democracy for china
d.) back to communism
e.) Tienamen == red place of Bejing
f.) Nukes for Taiwan
g.) Nukes in Taiwan
Now
Post this on your site and you will not suffer chinise hackers
and now some terms to be blocked from the U.S.
a.) Chavez our hero
b.)
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1. Those people who are in charge of GFW have pig heads with full load of shit, as always
2. Not a wise move for N++'s coders neither. I have to say when I saw the black flag banner in their website, I feel very uncomfortable. They said the protest is not against Chinese people but Chinese government. However the banner works in exactly opposite way. Considering how most Chinese still keep enthusiasm welcoming foreigners to Olympics after the earthquake, boycating it because of the irrelevant Tibet issue is rather annoying. The Olympics is not for Chinese government, but a carnival for our Chinese people. If you don't like Chinese government, protest something else but please don't use the Olympics.
I agree that China is very bad when it comes to freedom, and that the country would have been better off if the Coomunist Party hadn't turned on the revolutionary partners they had in overthrowing the Monarchy. However, China hasn't had free thought in probably a millenia or more.
You cannot use European filtered glasses and understand the Chinese mind (although there were visionaries in China during the revolution). Sure, there are many enlightened Chinese now, but life in China is still much the way it has been for over a thousand years (altough probably better for many and worse for some). Freedom is a new concept in China, not even a hundred years old. I think over all, they aren't doing too bad for a people just discovering free thought. Japan too struggles with this foreign concept. In Japan it is still often "the nail that sticks out that gets hammered down". Whereas, in many European cultures, "the nail that sticks out" often gets pulled out to see how it works (although, from what I read - the younger generation in Japan has made the transition).
So, while we should continue to pursue a path to bring China and the other freedom denying countries into the light, one should try to keep a mind on the cultural heritage and other other factors when approaching them.
In the end, free thinking will win out, because it open up many more avenues than any other mind set. Of course with free-thinking, I think you also get more crime. It's all Yin-Yang in the end. Eventually there will be a tipping point and a cascade event in China, much like I think Japan has recently undergone.
Of course, I could be totally wrong.
To get to Sourceforge you need to install TOR; but to install TOR you need to get to Sourceforge? Sounds like an impossible mission, Starfighter.
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Might as well throw in my $0.02
If Beijing Olympics is boycottable, then we should have boycotted the Salt Lake Olympics, the Sydney Olympic, the Atlanta Olympics,...
North America and Australia were the Tibets of the world 200 years ago.
Some posters here either have deficient long term memory, or have convenient selective memory, or are just douchebags a la Richard Gere.
Umm...change plz...;-)
Boycotting Beijing Olympics is against Chinese people coz every Chinese wants the Games are held in China. The only reason that you boycott the Beijing Olympics is You are not a Chinese. Stupid Americans!!
Cheat Chinese people, cheat all the people in China. The GOV wants to do it, and we can do nothing. Like fucking a girl, the girl just can enjoy, but not revolt.
The Internet should be a medium for the freedom of expression, not repression. China's censorship helps conceal ongoing human rights abuses. http://uncensor.com.au/uncensor/
This happens with youtube and other sites all the time, someone can't access a certain popular website in china and suddenly everyone thinks its been blocked. However, most of the time its not because the site has been added to the great firewall but because one of the ISPs is having problems.
Just put some of the ultra-banned words where they are sent with every reply and watch the GFW bury them in RST packets. You just have to figure out a way to do that to their mail - and hope they don't use botnets.
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"Some days before, a very popular free source code editor in SourceForge named Notepad++ start to boycott Beijing 2008."
. . . editor . . . start . . . ?
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Hmm, why does this ring a bell?
Sourceforge ... check. ... check. ... check.
Windows-only 'open source' application
Lots of publicity
Hmm.
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/community.mspx
"SourceForge.net is the world's largest open source software development Web site, providing more than 160,000 projects and over 1,700,000 registered users with a centralized resource for managing projects, issues, communications, and code. With over 70,000 of those projects based on Microsoft technology, SourceForge.net and Microsoft have worked together to provide the tools, programs and resources to help developers be more successful. Learn more..."
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080624-144528/Microsoft-to-developers-Open-source-is-a-choice
"Dela Cruz noted that within the SourceForge developer community, there are more than 77,000 listed applications that support Windows, more than half the same number of apps that work on Windows alone."
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/choice.mspx
"By embracing diverse application development and business models, Microsoft provides a world of choice in which individuals and organizations can pursue their goals based on what uniquely inspires them. Whether you are a developer who wants to learn new skills, connect with the community, or build a business-or a systems administrator dealing with complex interoperability and business demands-Microsoft participates in an ecosystem that offers you the tools, resources, and programs to help you succeed."
Coincidence? Probably.
Ahh, it's all about choice now. Choice of where you want to run your applications, so long as it runs on windows anyway.
I'm sure we'll be seeing more of that word over the next 6 months, and plenty of times on the front page of slashdot and sourceforge to boot.
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Free Tibet? Give me a break. Free Hawaii first before you shout for Free Tibet. Read up on how Hawaii was annexed by the US, how the language and culture of the polynesian inhabitants were eradicated, suppressed or bastardized. Read up how immigrants outnumber the natives and how the natives were pushed out of their ancestral lands. Does all this sounds familiar?
Mainland China?!? Taiwan is NOT a part of China!
So this means that chinese companies can't abuse GPL'ed projects anymore for profit?
Maybe we could insert a "free Tibet" meta-tag in ever page served over the internet, just to spite them.
.. .and let people live their lives
Mod me down but why the f*** people use this line like a fashion, huh? Stop being naive or pretending to be naive.
Government and people are one unit, God damn it! If a government is really f***'ed up, its people will rise and overthrow it; on the other hand, if nothing happens, that means the people support the government (or at least not against it to a point where uprising occurs). That simple. Don't give me the bull about brainwash, if people as a whole are so easily brainwash-able, maybe so called democracy is a big brainwash as well. ^_^
The U.S. government doing evil things in Iraq is because Bush directed it so; Bush doing evil things in Iraq is because the American people elected him and don't have the guts to pull him down, or maybe we don't think he's that bad, and killing several hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is bad so..hm...which one is it?
So at least be gutsy enough just say, "China and Chinese people, screw you", if you really believe in it.
The Dala Lama claims he wants to keep Tibetan peoples' culture and he is opposed to them becoming the minority. Look at the US, multiculturalism is forced down our throats, and if we complain, yep, we are racists. Look who is becoming the minority in the US. I am not saying that the cruelty towards Tibetans is acceptable, what I am saying is that there was an out cry when a large percentage of outsiders started migrating there, but hey we are forced to just accept it. Ofcourse I will be flamed, but hey I see things for how they are. Flame on.
We all have the freedom to express our ideas, of course; but sometimes I really wish they wouldn't. This kind of demonstration is silly - it doesn't even qualify for an emotionally charged expletive, it's just silly. I mean, all that comes out of this is that they get banned for a while, like naughty school children, and rightly so. If you imagine you sympathise with Tibet, how on Earth is it going to help them that we insult the Chinese leaders?
It's like that other daft gesture of "I don't want to play with you anymore, ever" - when high ranking American officials started calling the French names, like you would imagine primary school children. All it does is make people feel embarrassed about knowing you; as well as taking the attention away from more serious issues. Such as the problems in Tibet.
As a Chinese, I don't like the Olympic games. But the majority of those who boycott Beijing 2008 haven't been in Tibet and don't know there well. Why not go there and help those poor people to have a better life? They are simply anti-Chinese.
...to spare the Chinese from this sorry hackneyed excuse for a web portal.
Open letter to anyone boycotting the olympics. I'd love to hear your opinions:
Have you boycotted all US olympics since 1983 because they have refused to recognize the sovereignty of Hawaii, a belief expressed by modern-day scholar and Hawaiian Native daughter Haunani-Kay Trask?
(this is just one example, obviously no country's hands are clean, except maybe the poorest, and they never hold the olympics....)
The reality of Tibet is that the Dalai Lama's brand of Bhuddism is more seeded in feudalism than freedom. You would do well to read the following: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
If you were at the bottom of the current hierarchical system in tibet, perhaps you would see things differently. If the dalai lama were a true change-agent for the oppressed, he would work toward changing this caste-like system and instructing his slaves that bring him his dinner or wash his toilet to go out and wash the toilet of the less fortunate. I certainly have much more respect for Haunani-Kay Trask who believes in equal freedom for all her native people than I do for the recursively-anointed Dalai Lama.
America likes to disseminate propaganda, and they have are the leading voice when it comes to communism. Anytime they can take a swipe at China they will do so, even though China has a strict non-intervention foreign-policy when it comes to military (compare that to US bases in over 50 countries). Read Bill Blum's Killing Hope for a real eye opener.
Regardless of all this, if you still chose to believe what you want to believe, you aren't offending chinese, you're offending the olympians who have trained their whole life and are thinking to themselves, "What can I do? Why are all these people so upset?" It isn't good karma, but hey, do what you want.
The olympics should bring unity. Not division.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for your passion, honesty, sincerity, and generosity. It's nice to see someone who really cares about other people.
During the last period anybody has clearly seen that the Olympic games are strongly related to politics. Though this has been denied for a long time, and probably still is, by the IOC.
I think it cannot been denied that Open Source Software is not related to politics, as well.
Just because all Open Source Software is based on the human right of freedom of speech and expression.
Of course, as a developer of a OSS project, I'd prefer to stay politically neutral. Nowadays I think such a banner is a good idea. Especially because China is using OSS intensively and is making profit of it!
Therefore, I ask any developer of OSS licenced software to include such a banner on the web pages of his Open Source Software project.
I found it very offensive to take such kind of reckless actions on a website which means to be shared by all open source developers and users. I have written to the Notepad ++ team and request them to remove the action. If they feel they must boycott, there are tons of places for them to do so. I will bring this to the attention of SF.net administrators if they don't repsond in a timely manner.
I've just tried it now, and it's accessible. Long time China writer and rocker Kaiser Kuo made some interesting points in his keynote speech at the TWEEN conference regarding Chinese and western ideas of the Chinese internet.
Free software would seem to mesh very well with the supposed ideals of communism. Here we've got a community working hard to create something for the common good instead of personal gain and what does China do? Shut them out. Nah, I'm not really surprised.
China, so far, has not blocked any addresses starting with https
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Hi guys:
I hate being involved into political discussion. But as a Chinese I'm really upset and sad to see your up-rise of anti-China, in a so-called free open source community. I'm not Olympic fan, I'm not a member of CPC, and of course I'm not brain-washed by any governments as you might have naively thought.
Before coming to Canada, I thought in the same way as you are thinking about China right now. But you know what, now I'm totally changed by what happened recently, and by what I have found in West. So if I was brain-washed, I should have been brain-washed by West, not by my own country. Tell you one thing, the "GFW" also exists in Canada. When I was going to read news on a China website, my connection is reset immediately as I open the article by Canada network. You don't know it because you never found it out. Got what I mean? Then why you didn't find it out? Think about it !
I also hate the blocking thing on Internet access, of course including what GFW has been doing. But I don't want this leads to anti-China activities. It's true that there are tons of problems China government is facing and waiting to deal with (every country has their problems), but they're indeed improving it as they've been claiming, I know it because I've been there for 25 years. I don't like that doesn't mean I will protest the government (reasons in the followed paragraph). Yes for sure, I complain of it. But this has nothing to do with the "Tibet" issue as you are relating it to.
There WAS NO crack down on Tibet. If you anti-China only for this reason, I don't blame you. But I suggest you to investigate it more before you come to the conclusion. Find the truth by yourself. Most of those people who boycott Olympics due to Tibet violence don't even know where the Tibet is. Then how dare you criticize China of the things you have even no idea about it at all. You don't understand what Chinese people were going through. If you really want to know what's really happening there, go to China and find it out yourself, just like me, coming to West world to find the truth. Chinese people know that there are lots of complaints about the governments (no body denies that). But we know there is no better option right now (there is no perfect government in the world) for country's good. China has a large population to manage and is still under development. For a country, it has good reasons to leverage on many factors to make decisions considering economy, culture, internationalization, etc. Chinese people have the spirits to sacrifice the part of individual loss to push the country to develop, do you? That's because we have different cultures living in different world. Chinese are one family, as we are always claiming!
There are too many misunderstandings on freedom or human rights between China and West. Western people are always accusing China of human rights as your forever excuse, but never think about the issues in your country. If you can do this to China, does that mean we can protest US and claims to destroy the US country for their killings of thousands of innocent people in middle East. Can anybody say that they are free and have rights to kill people and initiate the Wars to any countries they don't like? If you insists on "free Tibet", does that mean we can also protest US and claims to free America, and we also can free Canada, drive all the immigrants back to their own country and return the soil to the native people.
Yes, there are some problems with human rights in China, I agree with you (every country does), if you are thinking in your western way. But from my point of view, human rights should be evaluated in the CONTEXT of this country. Don't ignore the China's situation if you really know about China well! You can not force every country to be the same as you, you are not POLICE on the earth! We know our country China very well, do you? In your country, what you see is really not "what you see"!! You are so luckily living in a rich country, so that you don't want to find the information b
in somebodys sources
Well,.. sourceforge is blacklisted now. Maybe because of the action on the notepad++ site, giving this moron exactly what he was hoping for.
The idiot blocking sourceforge is doing about the same amount of damage to China as the cultural revolution, and I actually suspect some thick bride to be involved from the Warlords of Industry that run the MS show in China. Only a traitor to the Chinese people can cook up such a measure as to block the single largest resource of knowledge on the internet.
As to the communist nature of China,.. well,.. I guess US Rednecks are commies too then. Totalitarian and combining Friedmans capitalism if anything. Nothing communist about this regime but the name I'm afraid. Equality certainly isn't practice here. If you have money you can bride your way out of anything just like the states.