I came across this article on Yahoo News this morning. This is pretty big news. This is pretty big censorship.
China blocks Internet access to New York Times
How effective is it to block websites? Every high school kid knows the "ins and outs" of accessing proxy servers. Does blocking information to an entire population even work anymore in this technical world?
There was mention of this problem during the recent Olympic Games held in China, news reporters and visitors were noticing blocks to certain websites. At that time, I thought to myself, hmmm.... are they living in a vacuum? Don't they know what our kids know?
The real intent of the proxy website was to provide open access information to people of countries who have been sheltered from the general news by their government. Along the way, Myspace, Facebook and Youtube high schoolers latched on...
Upon looking for more answers as to why the New York Times would be singled out and blocked, I came upon this older article that may shed more light on the subject.
The New York Times and China
I expect to hear more about this on the nightly news....
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China has many manufacturing contracts with US corporations, so they can do whatever they want. They enslave millions in feudal serfdom and adhere to a political system that is diametrically opposed to our own, but that's OK as long as our rich get richer off of them.
kk, from a technical standpoint, it is easier for the regime to block all traffic from China to the NYT that it is for schools to block all proxy servers in the US...since all traffic is routed through a limited number of nodes to get outside of China, that changes the equation a bit.
And I always have been told that by certain conservatives that the New York Times is socialist/communist, so why would they block it?
China is not the only country to moniter internet access. Myanmar(Burma) has their issues as well. The military controls the county there. I know it's an old article,but I doubt things have changed much since then.
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