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Re: CHINA TIGHTENS WEB CONTROLS TO KNOCK OUT PROXIES, GOOGLE
de are we on same page? 06/12/2006 11:34
china needs a little more time. china will open up as soon as they get they
set up their shadow vatican and pope, so that all kirastani money will start
rolling into china.
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> China Tightens Web Controls to Knock Out Proxies, Google
>
> By Fang Yuan
> Radio Free Asia
> Thursday, June 8, 2006
>
> Hong Kong - China has tightened its already firm grip on
> the Internet, with a slew of new controls that make
> access to the Internet outside China harder than ever,
> Web users said Wednesday.
>
> Chengdu-based Web site operator Deng Yongliang said
> Google's international search engine, which the company
> left filter-free after agreeing with Beijing to allow
> censorship of its google.cn version, was now almost
> unusable.
>
> "It's been very difficult to get anything in recent
> weeks, around the anniversary of June 4," Deng told RFA's
> Mandarin service.
>
> "Really I haven't managed to get anything at all. It's
> also been very hard to use any of the censorship-busting
> software like Dynapass and Freegate. Because the
> government has really been putting a lot of effort into
> cracking them," he said.
>
> "So we can't get onto international Google, and we can't
> use this software any more."
>
> Deng also complained that many e-mails to friends were no
> longer getting through, without specifying where the
> friends were in the world.
>
> In the past, if I couldn't get into international Google,
> I'd just use a proxy server. Now you can't even get in
> with a proxy. I heard that access to proxy servers had
> been very effectively blocked now,
>
> Li Xinde, citizen journalist and editor of Yulun Jiandu,
> a Web site known for exposing official corruption Deng's
> account tallied with that of other Internet users within
> China.
>
> Li Xinde, a citizen journalist whose Yulun Jiandu Web
> site is known for exposing official corruption, said the
> government was even managing to block the use of proxy
> servers, previously a handy loophole in the Great
> Firewall that surrounds China's Internet users.
>
> Press watchdog complains "In the past, if I couldn't get
> into international Google, I'd just use a proxy server.
> Now you can't even get in with a proxy. I heard that
> access to proxy servers had been very effectively blocked
> now," Li told RFA reporter Fang Yuan.
>
> The Paris-based press freedom group, Reporters Without
> Borders (RSF) said Tuesday that Internet users in many
> major Chinese cities had had difficulty in connecting to
> the uncensored international version of Google for the
> past week.
>
> RSF linked the new and unprecedented levels of censorship
> to the 17th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown
> on June 4, which is already a banned keyword for
> Beijing's system of filters.
>
> It said the uncensored version of the search engine was
> totally inaccessible throughout the country on 31 May.
> The blocking then gradually extended to Google News and
> Google Mail. "So the Chinese public is now reduced to
> using the censored Chinese versions of these services,"
> it said.
>
> "It was only to be expected that Google.com would be
> gradually sidelined after the censored version was
> launched in January," RSF said.
>
> "Google has just definitively joined the club of Western
> companies that comply with online censorship in China. It
> is deplorable that Chinese Internet users are forced to
> wage a technological war against censorship in order to
> access banned content."
>
> It said Beijing's formidable Web police had also largely
> managed to neutralize software designed to sidestep
> censorship since 24 May.
>
> Such software as Dynapass, Ultrasurf, Freegate, and
> Garden Networks is normally used by about 100,000 people
> in China to gain access to news and information that is
> blocked by the firewall isolating China from the rest of
> the World Wide Web, the group said.
>
> But Li said he didn't believe the new levels of filtering
> and censorship were directly connected to the June 4
> anniversary.
>
> "Yes, it's a sensitive time," he said. "But I don't think
> it's really connected to this. This has been going on for
> a long time now. As soon as the authorities succeed in
> blocking us, the anti-censorship software upgrades to a
> better version to get around them. And then the
> government manages to block it again, and it upgrades
> again."
>
> Municipal authorities in the capital Beijing have also
> revoked the licenses of six Web sites and temporarily
> shut down 12 Internet service providers for
> "rectification" during a 90-day city-wide crackdown.
>
> More than 858,000 yuan (U.S.$107,000) in fines were
> collected from 35 Web sites and Internet service
> providers who allegedly violated Beijing regulations.
> Thirty unlicensed Internet cafes were also shut down and
> 446 computers confiscated.
>
> Software engineers based abroad have been trying to
> update the censorship-busting programs on the basis of
> information they have received from Internet users inside
> China.
>
> A new version of Dynapass was released a few days ago,
> but its effectiveness is still extremely limited, RSF
> said.
>
> http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2006/06/08/china_webcontrols/
>
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> Imagine living in a police state where visiting the wrong
> website can disappear you in the middle of the night.
> Where the State even tells you how you can breathe, not
> to mention where. Imagine the People's Republic where the
> People live in constant Fear. The People's Republic of
> Fear
>
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