Someone is getting nervous…
From today’s NY Times:
SHANGHAI, July 3 — Chinese authorities have announced their intention to step up their efforts to police and control the Internet and other communications technologies, including instant messaging and cellphones
Step up? Wait, so all this technology you are using to try to stop the Internet from being free isn’t working well enough? Imagine that! Maybe they are getting nervous now that someone’s figured out how to breach the (so-called) Great Firewall.
Speaking at a conference in Beijing last Wednesday, Cai Wu, director of the powerful Information Office of the State Council, or China’s cabinet, said new control measures were needed “because more and more harmful information is being circulated online.”
Another senior official who spoke at the same meeting, Wang Xudong, deputy minister of the information industry, said his ministry’s next target would be developing technologies to regulate Web logs and search engines.”
Now they are saying they will develop their own technologies to regulate blogs and search engines. Isn’t that the business opportunity that Cisco, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, et al. and others haven’t wanted to get a piece of? I wonder where the ideas for these new inventions will come from? How long until they reinvent through “clean room engineering” technology created by American corporations?
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At least Chinese government is telling ppl before it does things. Unlike here, you THINK you have freedom but you are monitored.
I just got back to the USA from a month and a half in Tibet. I’m Tibetan and I speak Tibetan. For all we legitimately lament about the loss of certain civil liberties here, it is NOTHING compared to Tibet. Tibet today is a police state. Soldiers and plainclothes police everywhere, spies all around, video cameras, and not just for terrorism. Try saying “Free Tibet” in the street — you’ll be arrested before you can say “…bet”. Not to mention the economic discrimination and the large numbers of Chinese flooding in to displace the Tibetans. Don’t insult the people suffering in Tibet by comparing them to the situation in the USA!
every country has their flaws, why don’t we free everything in the world? Free Tibet, Free Alaska, Free New York, Free London, Free Sarawak, Free Bali Island, Free New Delhi, Free Paris, Free Jerusalem. Jeez
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