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China Using Net Censorship As a Trade Weapon?

Posted by Soulskill on from the nobody-likes-censorship dept.

angry tapir writes "The Chinese government is using Internet censorship as a trade weapon against U.S. tech companies trying to do business there. China's ongoing censorship of the Internet is applied unevenly, with foreign companies often facing stricter rules than their Chinese counterparts, said Ed Black, president and CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, to the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. (Of course, a lot of countries aren't thrilled by U.S. net censorship efforts.)"

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  1. Net censorship, another U.S. job going to China by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They took yer job, U.S. government!

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Net censorship, another U.S. job going to China by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

      They gave us the bird flu by fucking pigs, lets give them the yak flu by fucking camels.

      Oh, is it time for another of Herman Cain's foreign policy proposals?

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      Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
  2. Comparing US to China again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Nothing unsightly has been done by the US in the last 100 years, that China or Russia have not been outdone several times over in the last 50... Our moral ground is as high as ever compared to the rest of the world's (super)powers.

  3. I was feeling sick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    without a real China bashing post on /. for almost a day, now I feel better.