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Joining Apple, Amazon's China Cloud Service Bows To Censors (nytimes.com)
Days after Apple yanked anti-censorship tools off its app store in China, another major American technology company is moving to implement the country's tough restrictions on online content. From a report: A Chinese company that operates Amazon's cloud-computing and online services business there said on Tuesday that it told local customers to cease using any software that would allow Chinese to circumvent the country's extensive system of internet blocks (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). The company, called Beijing Sinnet Technology and operator of the American company's Amazon Web Services operations in China, sent one round of emails to customers on Friday and another on Monday. "If users don't comply with the guidance, the offered services and their websites can be shut down," said a woman surnamed Wang who answered a Sinnet service hotline. "We the operators also check routinely if any of our users use these softwares or store illegal content." Ms. Wang said the letter was sent according to recent guidance from China's Ministry of Public Security and the country's telecom regulator. Amazon did not respond to emails and phone calls requesting comment. The emails are the latest sign of a widening push by China's government to block access to software that gets over the Great Firewall -- the nickname for the sophisticated internet filters that China uses to stop its people from gaining access to Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as foreign news media outlets.
>said a woman surnamed Wang
Well that nails her down.
Ms. Wang, China.
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Is there a particular reason any of us should be surprised by this? China has been the way it is for longer than most of us have been alive, and looks to be that way for many more.
Money and power is more important than freedom and liberty to these people.
...emails to a cousin in San Francisco reading "Get Me Outta Here! Get Me The Hell Outta Here...!"
Oh, right.
PUSSIES!
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Joining Apple?
If I remember correctly - and I do - Google has been "bowing to censors" for ages.
If anything, these companies are joining Google.
Let's get our shit together and defeat this! And, let's hear more stories about people who succeed instead of this depressing 'Typhoid Mary' stuff about more blockages everywhere you look.
When a species lives isolation, it evolves differently. With China blocking Google and the technology answers Google answers, China's technology will evolve differently. Because technology is changing so fast this evolutionary process to will happen very fast.
While I lived in China, I used a my own private VPN to access Google for technology searches. Baidu may be good for searching the latest pop song in Chinese, but useless for technology searches. Right now I am programming in Vue, a very popular web framework in China, But I could not program in it if I did not have access to Google search to answer questions. The lack of technology searches and answers in China will limit the advancement of world standards there, because the average developer can not get answers.
Except that it is not a law if it was written by a totalitarian dictatorship, it's a diktat. This is calculated posturing by Apple.
"...and yet, I blame society" Duke - Repo Man
If users don't comply with the guidance, the offered services and their websites can be shut down. http://www.bagswalletsfr.com/
Good to see China still has nationalism and force internationals to bow to her elites' will. In America, our elites are for sale to the highest bidder, Muslim, Jew, Oriental, or Latino, just come with some $$$ for donations and a library.
I know you think this is the problem, but the chinese officials want that isolation. It will force you to use chinese tools and frameworks that ARE documented locally.
What you see as the problem is the expected and hoped-for outcome.
Next you'll be bitching that Amazon and Apple delete kiddie porn.
I know you think this is the problem, but the chinese officials want that isolation. It will force you to use chinese tools and frameworks that ARE documented locally.
And then their homogenization will make them horribly, pathetically vulnerable to attacks. Sounds fine to me, I guess.
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There is always a tightening of censorship before the twice-a-decade party Congress. The upcoming one is particularly sensitive as President Xi moves to consolidate power and is expected to replace practically all of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's highest governing body
It's a NY Times article. Has an actual reputable news organization checked the sources?
Pick your poison.
The precedent was set when the U.S. government didn't put Googlers in prison for violating the human rights of the Chinese by facilitating their government's whitewashing of the Tiananmen Square Massacre history (lets not quibble about whether the machine guns mowed down the democracy protesters within the square, or within 2 miles of the square. Because as we all know, that is what the Chinese government thinks makes all the propagandistic difference)
What's the point of being a part of the "leader of the free world" if you continuously bow to dictators and communists?
That only works if she has green eyes.
is the all mighty dollar.
How it made such a fuss for the protectionism of privacy against the FBI, when it suited them to side with the public.
China OTOH, fuck the public because it suits them to be sided with the government.
I love the "safer" ecosystem internal to iDevices, but it is a game of capitalism, profits, and fuck the people all the way to the arse-line.