In China, filters keep Internet near sterile

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | July 18, 2005 | AP Wire

[handy old one]

Machine guns pop out of the table and it is the end of you as we now know it.

[BenLurkin]

"We are going to take things away from you for the common good".

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This too shall pass.

The Butchers of Beijing have a tiger by the tail, and it's only a matter of time before it eats them alive.

[Army Air Corps]

Basically, the Internet as it would be under UN control.

[WhiteGuy]

The future of the fcc................

[Montfort]

Yep. Hillary and some of the so-called moderates look at this and see a successful beta. Coming soon to the US.

Heck. Bush signed McCain-Feingold, so may be like the rest in wanting politicians and professionals in the media to keep control of political speech.

[dfwgator]

Many Chinese know other languages, or couldn't they come up with certain code words, I'm sure there are ingenious ways of getting around the censors.

[End Times Sentinel]

It doesn't say exactly, but one is led to believe that they may be blocking access to some of the hottest porn the net has to offer.  I don't even want to ponder the existance of a place where access to onionbooty.com might be restricted.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Good thing you do not work here. The firm has put in filters to keep certain things off the computer.

Onionbooty, you are a twisted freak, and my kind of person!!

[listenhillary]

The online gaming will rot their brains and sap their productivity.

[jdm]

"(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)"

The material below that line is the most important in the entire article! No media bias here, folks!

[jdm]

"But if I try to get one of the speeches I made in the States (last year), it freezes up. The whole thing freezes. I have to reboot the computer."

That sounds more like a spyware problem!

[Graybeard58]

The material below that line is the most important in the entire article! No media bias here, folks!

That's why the editor at one of the most conservative newspapers in the country left it in.

[Cleburne]

I just got back from spending several weeks in a small city in the southeast of Yunnan Province. I walked down one street that had a total of seven Internet cafes on its short length. The ones I used tended to be full of people (except after lunch, which is nap time for most people). The controls were not as stiff as those described in Shanghi, but the blocking was still a feature- that, and signs every couple meters on the walls reminding you to be a good little Internet user (complete with a smiling policeman). I was somewhat surprised at what I was able to access- Free Republic, among other things- but of course other things were blocked. Blogger blogs, for example, is blocked all across the board- though Blogger itself is not. Only certain infractions would freeze up the browser. I was able to read some pretty serious stuff about religious persecution in China. Of course, everything I looked up was in English. I am sure the Chinese-language netosphere is more closely regulated.

Oh, and trust me, you can get around the Great Wall pretty easily, if you have the know-how and the goods.

[bobdsmith]

At any given moment, 2 million Chinese are gaming online. One leading portal, NetEase, says that as many as 600,000 users have played its most popular game concurrently.

The game is called "Zot".

Players connect to one of many game servers in which they recieve a fast stream of incoming text messages on their screen.

The objective is to quickly click on any messages that use certain words, including "democracy", "human rights", "tibet", etc.

A very popular game. It's origins are unknown...

[I still care]

Couldn't resist this quote;

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers".

Of course, that was just before he blew the whole planet to pieces.

[End Times Sentinel]

Good thing you do not work here. The firm has put in filters to keep certain things off the computer.

You know, it starts out with access denied to jugsliveonline.net and the next thing you know they're crushing employees in the breakroom by tipping over file cabinets.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"You know, it starts out with access denied to jugsliveonline.net and the next thing you know..."

...Wet t-shirt contests in the breakroom.