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Re: CHINA TIGHTENS WEB CONTROLS TO KNOCK OUT PROXIES, GOOGLE
de usenet 06/13/2006 01:09
A ChiCom Vatican -- that'll be something else. What would
the call their pope, the Chore, I mean Chope?
Jai Maharaj
http://tinyurl.com/a5ljc
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti
In article <u5ljg.221495$5Z.73957@dukeread02>,
"are we on same page?" <sayhello@hotmail.com> posted:
> 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.
>
>
> www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) posted:
>
> > 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/
> >
> > - - - - - - -
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Posted on 6/10/2006 by at bay
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> > -To: at bay
> >
> > And now for the tagline....
> >
> > Posted on 6/10/2006 by at bay ("We actually did an
> > evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
> >
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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