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US Gov't Pushing News Through China's Great Firewall

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-shouldn't-suffer-through-our-media-alone dept.

eldavojohn writes "The US government's Broadcasting Board of Governors has revealed in a completed FOIA request the development, testing and planned use of Feed Over E-mail (FOE) to push news through China's firewall. This FOIA request (PDF) indicates that the US government is interested in making sure Chinese people receive up-to-date news, and it wants to expand the arsenal of anti-censorship tools (for news at least). The FOE project is GPLv3 and maintained by Sho Ho of BBG."

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  1. OSS propaganda is good? by Nikker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does making it FOSS make pushing one countries point of view make it right?

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    1. Re:OSS propaganda is good? by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 4, Insightful

      OK, let's get this out of the way: if a private citizen advocates for 1) freedom of expression 2) accountability of governments to their citizens and 3) some other basic human rights, and sets up a FOSS software project to advocate these things to people living under statist governments, is it good? If his government does the same thing, is it bad? It's the messenger AND the message that distinguishes good from bad, not just a question of who's doing the talking.

  2. Isnt it ironic. by unity100 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that american govt is so sensitive about freedom of information of chinese people, whereas trying to censor/suppress anything that wikileaks discloses about american government, to american people ?

    question was rhetorical. it is ironic.

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