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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.
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.
Well, it's 3:15 here and he hasn't arrived yet. He'll have to hurry or I'm going to lock up and go home
Time for bed, said Zebedee - boing
...emails to a cousin in San Francisco reading "Get Me Outta Here! Get Me The Hell Outta Here...!"
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
I really hope you typed all of it, beacuse if you copy pasted it you're going to hell. You know that right?
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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.
No way dude, you're on your own. I told you I'm not touching that stuff.
That only works if she has green eyes.
Keep using the best VPN products on real computers.
That connecting from within China will be followed to the server outside China so the use of a VPN will be detected.
The user will be discovered and what VPN service thy used will be detected.
A US company will have to accept and support the rule of law in China for that brand access.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Google left China. They are in HK, but they are uncensored there. China blocks Google, not the other way around.
They DID censor in China. Then China broke in and read emails from dissidents. Google left. China has blocked all Google services since, pretty much.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."