China Regulates the Internet 13
The_Myth writes "The Sydney Morning Herald today published an article on China's regime to curtail the Internet. Basically they control the one gateway to the net from their country and screen anything they deem to be undesirable. Full Article is here. Are any other countries doing this?" Well, this is nothing new - China has been doing this for years, and periodically announces crackdowns, which is what I think this is.
So,.. (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
What can we do.. (Score:1)
Controlling the only gateway SHOULD work... (Score:2)
Re:What can we do.. (Score:1)
If you don't mind breaking a few laws, you can hack a few machines and set them up as dummy proxies for anybody to use. There are a lot of unattended unix boxes in China (proof: see how many
If you happen to know someone in China and want them to get around the filters, you could set up a unix account for them. However, the danger here is I'm sure telnet connections are logged and authorities can get suspicious. Ssh I'm sure isn't well liked there since authorities hate encryption there more than in our own countries.
Inevitably, any such system that is created must be very low key and can easily be disguised as normal net traffic if you wish to keep authorities from becoming suspicious.
Who says China is the only country doing this? (Score:1)
Not news (Score:1)
The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...
Re:Wall of Tears?? (or something) (Score:4)
You then accumulate reams of data on your subversives and lock 'em (and their friends) up, or infiltrate their networks with agents provocateur, or whatever you like. Carnivore with a hard drive (60G) instead of a ZIP disk (120M) would make this pretty easy.
You Euro folks don't get snooty - on the other side of the pond, you just wade through the petabytes of stuff the Brits are collecting from their ISPs.
China's doing it the old - and dumb - way. The problem with filters is that they don't tell you who's "loyal but curious about what those damn Falun Gong subversives are up to" and who the real activists are. Data collection, mining, and profiling does.
The Western equivalent would be "give [your enemy] enough rope to hang himself".
Re:What can we do.. (Score:1)
Feel free to set up an anonymous proxy, and feel free to watch China block all proxies since they control the only pipe into China.
What can people on the outside do, you ask? Can it be that hard to smuggle info into China, you ask? FUCK YES is can, and you can't do jack shit about it. The point is China is suppressing all information it doesn't like to all people. There's little difference between oppressing Democratic principles and religious beliefs from a few thousand people and blocking some hard core porn from one person.
You want to help? You can't. You can't stop the machine in China from doing what it wants with a few anonymous proxies or freenet or by setting up some "clandestine pipes/routers." I don't even know how you'd believe something like that would exist.
Remove the communists from power in China or forget it.
Post Communism Communism (Score:1)
Re:So,.. [OT] (Score:1)
And yes my Cantonese phrase book was published by A. Yacht Jr.
Re:Who says China is the only country doing this? (Score:2)
So how do you propose that the feds would block access? Block one route, the whole internet dynamically changes to accomodate via RIP.
The problem with capped Karma is it only goes down...
Re:Who says China is the only country doing this? (Score:1)