The Great Firewall of China Blocks Off Wikipedia (cnet.com) 86
China is known for its censorship of certain websites. The country went the extra mile by blocking Wikipedia in April. From a report: Multiple reports confirm China blocked Wikipedia across all language URLs sometime in late April. The country is using DNS injections to prevent its citizens from accessing the online encyclopedia, according to a report from the Open Observatory of Network Interference on May 4.
Hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
So they can't see this. [wikipedia.org]
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Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man
Re:Hmmm (Score:5, Informative)
Or this [wikipedia.org].
Or this. [wikipedia.org]
Baidu Baike to the rescue. (Score:2)
All the authors are named individuals, all contributions are curated. No fake news in that encyclopedia.
It apparently is now not too bad at non-political topics. And for the political ones a Chinese citizen can read away without any risk to their social credit score.
What is surprising is that it took them so long to finally ban Wikipedia. Wikipedia pulls no punches, and is very sharp about the many, many issues that are sensitive in China.
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All the authors are named individuals, all contributions are curated. No fake news in that encyclopedia.
Sarcasm?
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Not to be confused with the Golden Shield Project, of which the Great Firewall is only one part.
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written by the Red Trump.
Well, that's a billion less (Score:3)
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It's not like Wikipedia offers anything of value.
So there is in fact NOTHING of value to be had from Wikipedia? Nothing at all?
...the number of sexist and racist admins...
Did your sensitive feelings get hurt? Someone didn't agree with you? Don't sign up and correct this internationally available trove of knowledge, boldly step forward and whine on an unrelated site. That'll show them who's boss!
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"remove the position of ÃpresidentÃ(TM)/ÃkingÃ(TM) in politics, and the ambitious fools wonÃ(TM)t get a crack at power."
Yeah right, and unicorns will skip down the street together hand in hand singing kumbaya.
Human society works on the principal of rule by power even if that power is an elected government. Always has done, always will do. There isn't a human civilisation in existence than works entirely on concensus with no one in charge. Its been tried on small scales and just does
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BS. If you think capitalism dictates how the non economic parts of societies are run then you need to take your blinkers off. Trade is a cog in the machine of society, but it doesn't run it.
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Small scales are the only ones it does work on. It's possible to build an idyllic little community - if it only has a handful of people in it.
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sooner or later there WILL be disagreements in any society larger then 1. ... sooner or later the weak and dependent are beholden to the powerful to honor their commitments to treat them well. And unless those n power adhere to some principle higher then themselves there is no good reason to expect they will.
Anyone who has ever been a member of a family knows that.
The next question becomes , what are the best ways to settle disagreements.
What most people seem to miss out on is
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Nope, sorry. Inevitably a clique of people who call the shots eventually forms.
Re: What triggered the block? (Score:2, Interesting)
Trumps tariffs triggered the block. It's common sense.
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Without full control people protest at the really bad conditions.
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A book like 1984.
Cartoon bear update.
History of the Communist party in China.
Anything about the real China, Taiwan.
Something about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
A camera company due to its use of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
The 709 crackdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Read down "Internet censorship in China" AC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Postcard to China (Score:2)
China, weâ(TM)re enjoying th future. Wish you were here.
Good luck keeping up, now! Signed... the West.
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Well, some of us are. The rest are keep encountering systems stuck in the '90s that display oddball text when we try to read people's online message posts.
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No no, the oddball systems are the ones that generate the broken text. The bug is in the submitters system not the reader.
Apple think different apostrophes Re: Postcard to (Score:2)
Apostrophes coded as straight in ascii from IPads and iPhones get jumbled as curly. Different ascii. Lesson: do not use everyday contractions when posting?
"What was that funny error again?" (Score:2)
One of these days they'll block Stackoverflow, and their civilization will grind to a halt.
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Door-key-hiding-fake-rocks will triple in price.
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Like what? I mean I've snatched up middling grade knock offs from Chinese markets but it isn't like they made anything of their own they just copied someone elses stuff.
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He he, I'll get a new handle there
Oh no (Score:2)
Whatever will they do?
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2. Buy one VPN from a list of VPN products that people say allowed access to the full internet last month?
3. Comment on censorship, Taiwan, a bear cartoon, 1984.
4. Wait and see how quickly a Communist gov can track down an ip after some free speech.
prevent its "citizens" from accessing (Score:1)
I think the summary meant "subjects."
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I think the summary meant "serfs."
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Get reported and its full Communist gov time.
The person who got reported using the internet is found.
They get their punishment.
Once released back into the community nothing digital works as it once did.
No travel, no banks, no easy way to do any payments, limited smart phone, no education, less quality health care, housing is gone, no credit.
Every aspect of life is reduced, blocked, will not function.
Then people connected to the "bad" person start to get the same reduction in
Re: Do they have enough fingers... (Score:1)
So it's pretty much just like having a bad "credit score" in America? Yay totalitarian capitalism!
The CCP are overplaying their hands. (Score:2)
As I was talking with Chinese nationals (I worked for half a year recently near China) I was shocked at the extent that the authorities have purged any knowledge of Tyannanmen Square events from the collective Chinese psyche. Before this I couldn't imagine such pervasive censorship could exist or that it would be effective.
However, by censoring Wikipedia the authorities in China may finally start to arouse some curiosity in the younger generations of Chinese. Why Wikipedia, what is there to be censored? The
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I doubt very much whether many Chinese will care about the past. A few brave grandparents might whisper something to their grandchildren, who will quickly forget it.
The one that gets me is that Mao is officially revered as the father of the revolution. Yet both the great famine and cultural revolution are well within living memory. And the boom in the economy once Mao died. And the obvious comparison to Taiwan. Yet Mao is the savior of the people. Most Chinese genuinely believe that to be true. (A l
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The one that gets me is that Mao is officially revered as the father of the revolution. Yet both the great famine and cultural revolution are well within living memory.
That's a great point, actually. I don't know what to say because we are talking about monumental numbers of dead caused by Mao.
Fuck China (Score:2)
Again (Score:2)
Term Papers (Score:2)