Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Chinese Censors Accidentally Block Shanghai Index

Posted by Unknown on Monday June 4, 2012 @11:40AM from the the-stock-market-has-always-been-up dept.

New submitter Vulcan195 writes "Now this is amusing in so many ways ... Today (June 4, 1989 ... i.e. 6/4/89) is the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Naturally, the Chinese Censors were working overtime to block anything that made remote or oblique references to that event. Well, sometime during the day the Shanghai Composite Index dropped by 64.89 points; You can guess what happened next."

8 of 345 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

at least it wasn't a search-and-replace by Trepidity · 2012-06-04 11:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Much like the fate that befell Olympic runner Tyson Homosexual, the Shanghai Stock Exchange could've found itself falling Harmonious Society points today.

--
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
1. Re:at least it wasn't a search-and-replace by identity0 · 2012-06-04 12:03 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  At least he wasn't made to be Nookd for a bonfire.
Today? by kwiqsilver · 2012-06-04 11:44 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought today was June 4, 2012. If it's 1989 still, I should probably get out of this office and head to high school.
Simple answer by arcite · 2012-06-04 11:51 · Score: 4, Funny

The reverse engineers copied the errors. ;)
Counterespionage by Sloppy · 2012-06-04 12:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Does 6489 this 6489 mean 6489 I have 6489 discovered 6489 a way to 6489 keep my 6489 industrial 6489 data 6489 from being 6489 stolen 6489 by Chinese 6489 spies?

--
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Re:Not like the USA by Capsaicin · 2012-06-04 13:19 · Score: 4, Funny

...so says "X0563511", "email not shown publicly", with a broken website.
That's funny. The website was working fine before he made that post.

--
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. --Edmund Burke
Re:Not like the USA by exa · 2012-06-04 14:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, if the Nazis had won, the world would still have a fascist global superpower, but one with much sharper uniforms.

--
--exa--
Re:Not like the USA by DriedClexler · 2012-06-04 16:49 · Score: 3, Funny

What are you talking about? It's perfectly legal in China to announce "Fuck the US, and fuck the US government."

--
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.