Google BLOCKED in CHINA!

This is just one more speed bump for the IT professionals and amateur hackers to overcome. Doesn't China realize that this is the way to progress? Tell them "no" and watch them overcome. Silly Rabbit...

I believe that you will find this article quite interesting. It is on how people get around Internet Censorship. In other words, you just cant stop people from reporting no matter how hard you try. Take away their freedom, and they'll invent ways to get it back. Go humanity!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23censor.html

precisely, when will they learn

That last sentence is the chilling one. I understand the argument against pornography - it really isn't something a society needs - but once you block anything, it's too easy to block much more. To block searches of historical events in the country that the government didn't like doesn't sit well with me and would cause me to argue that they shouldn't block anything at all. Of course, China doesn't value individual rights in the way the west does.

China is quite hypocritical especially where rights are concerned. But they've obviously got ulterior movies for this software that comes in the name of Porn! Of course, they've gotta have some valid reason to block it, and they've come up with porn, which really doesn't require filtering software to be installed on each individual PC.

However I heard that this software may be a product of a Western Company that China is paying to create it. if this is the case, it is a slap on the face of all pro democracy activists in the very world that advocates it.

It's also a matter of Chinese culture. There is a marked difference b/w the Chinese cultural conception of freedom and community and the historically European concept of it. European ideas have to a certain extent been adapted by Chinese philosophy, particularly Marxism obviously, but also reinterpreted in a uniquely Chinese manner, like the concept of rights in society etc. Looking at the anthropology of the current Chinese state, one can find many parallels to historical Chinese empires and their social structures; a thread of continuity in symbolism and discourse. Similar threads are also evident in European state and social structures and most others for that matter. I.E. the more things change the more they stay the same. The hypocrisy, as you point out, is that oppressive or coercive state and other structures tend to reinforce each other across cultural and state boundaries, hence a corporate entity from 'the west' (hate that term) that is engaged in a system of control will help create mechanisms of control for another system regardless of ideology; the thing that binds them is the desire to maintain or perpetuate control.

This is better for China i would prefer it would have happened in my country, Malawi.

http://dyton.wordpress.com

No one can be stopped , not with a population like theirs. frustrations will come out in other ways when they have nothing to do over their weekend and with their high speed connection!