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How to Subvert China's Google Firewall - Falun Goog Style
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/01/how-to-subvert-chinas-google-firewall.html ^ | January 26, 2006 | McConnell

Posted on 01/26/2006 2:14:19 PM PST by kokonut

Bill Xia is truly a technically savvy person who immigrated here to the U.S. from China during the late 1990s. Over time he saw how the Chinese government kept a tighter and tighter control over Chinese web users inside China. And because of that frustration, he and few others started Dynamic Internet Technology as way to help Chinese users get around the Chinese's firewall.

Bill Xia left China for the US in the late 1990s. He keeps up with events in his homeland, mostly online.He has been amazed by the rapidly growing number of people in China who can join him in cyberspace.But he has also watched as Beijing tries to keep tighter and tighter control over those Chinese web users. Mr Xia says he got fed up with the way the Chinese authorities control access to information on the web"I started realising the media controls in China. And then I realised the internet presented a great opportunity to get around those media controls," he said.In 2001, Mr Xia and some other US-based volunteers started Dynamic Internet Technology.The company helps Chinese web users get around China's firewall.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: china; chinesewebusers; democracy; freedom; google; restriction

1 posted on 01/26/2006 2:14:22 PM PST by kokonut
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To: kokonut

Blogger.com is down for maintenance needs at 4PM Pacific time. Holy schmoly. At the height of internet traffic??

Geez. Is Google becoming like Microsoft or what?


2 posted on 01/26/2006 3:44:14 PM PST by kokonut
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To: kokonut

Was it George Will's line? "They love commerce more than they loathe Communism."


3 posted on 01/26/2006 4:14:18 PM PST by TBP
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To: kokonut

google will pay a dear price for what they are doing.


4 posted on 01/26/2006 11:20:12 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
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