Posted on 04/15/2005 7:38:31 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
One of the study's principal investigators, John Palfrey, warned that the sophistication of China's controls raises the prospect of a broken Internet and could show other closed states that censorship can be effective.
"Do we want to have multiple Internets, a China Wide Web, a U.S. Wide Web, a Saudi Wide Web, or do we want the whole World Wide Web?" asked Palfrey, who is executive director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
China's filters can block specific references to Tibetan independence without blocking all references to Tibet, according to the report by the OpenNet Initiative.
Likewise, the government limits discussions about Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square and other topics deemed sensitive, the study finds.
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Quote: China soups up Internet censoring filter
All the free traitors out there keep saying the chinese will be experiencing more freedoms due to capitalism. All I see is the commies tightning their control.
Nothing new. That's why codes were invented. Unlike encryption, code words don't advertise themselves.
Yep. What free traitors never seem to comprehend is that with China we are dealing with a civilization that is more than a 1,000 years old. They think very long term. Whether China is ruled by Communist Tyrants or brutal Warlords, their culture has always been nationalistic in the extreme. And heavy handed governmental control over their people is a long standing defining trait of China.
The idea that China will become an open society marked by free enterprise and free trade for their masses is just so much empty headed free trade utopia that will never come to pass...at least anytime in the next few generations.
Exactly.
liberals and progressives are just gonna like the chicoms, i have a feeling.
...at least anytime in the next few generations.
You were doing great right up until here. No need to for this escape valve.
...at least anytime in the next few generations.
You were doing great right up until here. No need to for this escape valve.
They seek to block the mighty GONPO?
Somebody is gonna get smited....
The smite is far worse than the zot.
I say we give the Hong Kong Blondes a boatload of money, equipment, and technical and intel support just to spite them.
No need to for this escape valve.
True, it wasn't needed.
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