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Re: CHINA TIGHTENS WEB CONTROLS TO KNOCK OUT PROXIES, GOOGLE
de harmony 06/13/2006 01:26
he will be the one with the long chopestick, with smoke rising from a
dragon's mouth walking close behind him.
commie pope is likely to prevail over nazi pope eventually.
<usenet@mantra.com9Jb9Y4f or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)> wrote in
message news:20060612FV1tvxd9Jb9Y4f8Fvr3C451@M7834...
>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
>> >
>> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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>> > -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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>> >
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