The thing about The Chinese filtering the web to block porn sites is just a ruse for clamping down on free speech and all. I have been covering threats on bloggers and web publishers for about two years now and funny thing is that none of the above, to the best of my recollection, has been charged for the aforementioned, it is always anyone who dares speak ill of the government.
V--On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Bernard Owuor <b_owuor@yahoo.com> wrote:
Some people say that the Chinese want to protect their own.
- Google is giving the Chinese owned baidu.com a run for its money in search.
- The Green Dam Youth Escort web filtering software that China wants shipped with EVERY computer is, of course, made in China - by a former bureaucrat.
With over 298 million internet users to protect, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is simply doing its job.
From: "ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info" <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info>
To: Skunkworks forum <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:36:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Web filters
2009/6/24 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
> the Internet (which we all begrudgingly accept exist). If we have a rotten
> society at the top it will definately trickle down to our children and since
> it's expensive for individuals to police the Internet, why not let the govt
> do it?
>
Are you naive enough to believe the "we are just filtering porn" snake
oil sold by the chinese government ?
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