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China Blocks Web Searches About Protests

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-want-users-to-make-their-own dept.

itwbennett writes "China is blocking searches on Google and microblogs for Zengcheng, a city in the country's Guangdong province, where protests have erupted against local authorities. The move is part of an effort to suppress information on the rioting."

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  1. Quite the pro-business, anti-citizen country there by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So this is what businesses want our country to be like - where businesses can roam freely, and ask the government to cut coverage to (and search of) protests?

    This is what we encourage when we send work offshore to these kind of countries. No thanks.

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  2. Re:You can't trust the Chinese by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or the USians.

    Evil.

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  3. Must be working by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I haven't heard anything about these protests on the news here in the US

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  4. FUCK CHINA by Alien+Being · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Really. I mean if you're a citizen of any country where you still have some freedom, any freedom, then FUCK CHINA.

  5. Come again? by arielCo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

    John Gilmore, quoted in Time Magazine

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    1. Re:Come again? by lennier · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

      John Gilmore, quoted in Time Magazine

      That was the 90s. The Net in 2011 interprets censorship as a value-added customer experience enhancement service and downloads an app for it onto your non-jailbreakable iThoughtStation 451.

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  6. Re:Social stability by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a good move by China.

    It depends on whether you define "China" as the government or those who are governed.

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  7. Re:You can't trust the Chinese by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much more obvious does China have to make it that they can't be trusted.

    Free people everywhere should be preparing to confront the fascist Chinese government instead of joining them in a race to the bottom.

    Although I agree the Government of China sucks, please don't lump all "the Chinese" people in with them.
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