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China will squeeze the Internet even more
NOT WISHING to be outdone by Australia when it comes to web censorship, the Chinese government has warned that in 2010 it will crack down harder on websites that it deems unlawful.
The Glorous People's Republic arrested thousands of its citizens last year for peddling pornography on the web and said it will be increasing enforcement during the coming year.
According to Reuters, China's Ministry of Public Security warned that in 2010 it will intensify punishments for illegal Internet operations, ramp up information monitoring, and press Internet service providers to use preventive technology.
We guess it just does not want to be outclassed by western democracies that are starting to do much the same things in the name of protecting their entertainment industries.
China has gone further by shutting Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Flickr. However one of the things its social scientists have worked out is that for some reason the numbers of porn cases and other Internet 'crimes' have actually increased four-fold since last year's crackdown began.
Clearly, locking people up is not actually working very well. µ
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Yea, enjoy your ultra fast internet while you look at the dozen or so pages that aren't filtered by the great firewall of China.
Dang, I was going to say that :-(
...and, as far as I'm aware, you will soon only be able to use that 8mbit connection to look at web sites which have applied for and received certification by the government.
Have fun with that.
..8 megabit is 32 times faster than .25 megabit...my bad...
Daemon, your ideas of China are WAY out of date. The internet here is not just as good as yours, it's probably better.
When I first came to China nine years ago, I was able to get 8 megabit unlimited up/down 24 hours a day for the price of ...$20 a MONTH.
Note this is true unlimited; I'm speaking as someone who is connected 24 hours a day. Also not that it DOES run at the advertised speed; I actually get downloads running at 1 megabyte per second and uploads the same. (Or aggregate totals running at that speed.)
At the time, Australia was offering 256K down / 128K up with a three gig per month download limit for $80 a month (Hah!!! Call that broadband??? Puny even at the time...) .... to reiterate, that's .25 megabits per second for $80 with a three gig cap, whereas China gave me 8 megabit (16 times faster) with no limits for only $20....
Nowadays you can get much faster, and the price has gone down even further .. I can get true 2 megabit up/down unlimited, for example, for $150 *A YEAR*.
So..what does your country have to offer?
..lol@300baud modems!!! (BTW I've actually used them, AND connected to bulletin boards that only allowed single users .. I think about 20 years ago???)
It won't be long before the headline reads "Canada/USA will squeeze the Internet even more." I'm trying not to sound crazy here; but who doesn't think an Internet version of 9/11 is fast approaching...
I here those blazing fast 300 baud modems are selling very well over there.
;)
For a government that does not officially believe in a God, aka Communism, I find it strange they would push moral values onto people like the Taliban.
Has the definition of Communism has changed, I don't think so. It's more of the same that is being dished out by ever growing governments all around the world, CONTROL