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China Blocks More Internet Services
Dave writes "China continues to block more and more popular services. This week they blocked iTunes and YouTube, and now it's TringMe, a popular VoIP 2.0 service. From TringMe's Blog: 'We received close to hundred complaints from our China users that TringMe services is not accessible from yesterday. We have found after our investigation that TringMe is blocked by Chinese government. Earlier China blocked Skype and now they are turning their eye to TringMe. TringMe is extremely popular in China and we have a large number of paying customers in China including a Chinese social network with 3 million users using TringMe's API & services.'"
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Something tells me the Chinese government would love nothing more than for that to happen.
The UK is doing its best to censor the internet any way they can. Londonâ(TM)s St. Pancras International has been censoring alternative news websites through their wi-fi for at least a month. While I see plenty of news articles about Chinese censorship, I didn't see the UK censorship anywhere else.
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
China blocking more and more software that would allow communication between the billion-and-change people inside the country, or between people in China and people outside China, may be business as usual but it's going to deal this company a blow by terminating three million accounts.
Should we not consider anything that is 'business as usual' to be news? If that's the case, why not just drop any news coverage of the telco immunity deals, domestic spying, or abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and similar facilities? Those are things that seem to be happening with disturbing regularity lately.
Good citizens stay indoors while the proud national military is out arresting the fools who would wish to harm our proud nation!
This is China. Do you think they don't have contingency plans for things like that? More importantly... how are they going to coordinate to do this without attracting enough notice to shut it down before it begins?
...what the hell is VoIP 2.0?
Now with all-new Buzzword Compliance Module?
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
The best time to enact unpopular laws is when national pride is at an all-time high.
"I only speak the truth"
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We already know chinas blocks are easy to get around, its about control more than anything. if something is 'blocked' people don't talk about it.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past and who controls the internet controls past,future and present. o tempora o mores...
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It was different while the olympics were on? All I saw was a shiny, pretty, smiling face on what was the same old country the whole time. They didn't unblock internet, they still beat people up and arrested dissidents, and they put people out of work in droves.
What really pissed me off is that newspeople didn't scream about how dumb it was to give them the olympics at all.
Precisely why we shouldn't.
Cultural imperialism is our most effective weapon, and for it to work we need all channels as open as possible.
Let a country completely wall itself off and you end up with North Korea, where the general population's world view in no way resembles the actual physical reality.
China has a long record of purging intellectuals and counter revolutionaries.
They've reduced that tendency though eugenics.
The idea that the Chinese are going to stand up in droves just because horrific injustices are heaped upon them is laughable.
The US is starting to train it's people to the same sheepish standards.
Grass roots resistance is dead but the media war can be won.
Read some McLuhan if you want some effective weapons against this.
http://cultofjim.com/scripture/understanding_media/
The Chinese government now is arguably less oppressive than it was under Mao, and the Chinese people are experiencing greater economic growth than they have for decades. Why on Earth would they want to start a revolution now? Compared to the way it was, China is a utopia these days.
Perhaps the western world should block China from the internet.
Here's a better plan: on all pages with scientific and technical information-- which is to say, the stuff that the Chinese leaders want their people to be able to access-- embed somewhere in the page some of the keywords that trigger the firewall filters-- stuff like "free Tibet" and "Say Yes to Falun Gong" and the names of the Tiananmen Square June 4th protesters (in Chinese).
Make their own firewall block the internet.
iTunes doesn't contact DRM servers every time you play a file. It contacts them once, when you purchase and download a file. If you move the file to a new computer which has never seen your iTunes account before, then you have to contact the servers again to authorize that computer on your iTunes account.
So you'd be prevented from moving the files to a new computer, but you wouldn't be prevented from playing them back on the equipment that you had already authorized.
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Firehose:China Blocks More Internet Services by tringme (1352127)
looking at tringme's profile, he joined....TODAY! What a coincidence. Who cares if it's banned in China, he just wants to spam his service to slashdot.
Let a country completely wall itself off and you end up with North Korea, where the general population's world view in no way resembles the actual physical reality.
And this is different from religious America how?
Where is the utopia you describe? Young people too tired and controlled to think for themselves. Crowded, dirty, and polluted cities where people go hither and yon with very little idea of what they are living for. The chinese have grown up with nothing and now that they have something they are unable to learn courtesy or the slightest of polite gestures. There is an army base in every city and town. Is this necessary? I think not. The Chinese are over taxed and taught what to say and think. They have no idea of what a true opinion is. Ask a young person what their hobbies are and you will get one answer, playing video games because they have so little time for relaxation or introspective that to sit for a few private moments in front of a computer screen is like their utopia. Utopia my hindquarters. I don't know which China you live in but it isn't the one I live in.