Censorship

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

September 14 2007 13:38 GMT

When I tried to view the thread I made about china internet censorship wiki articles my internet got disconnected for 2 minutes. Some words or link or something must've triggered something else, security system, etc. I saw the same page I see when I try to sort by "date added" on youtube, or click on page 2 on youtube, or search falun on google. I stumbled upon this nice cnn summary on how chinese internet censorship works, http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0603/explainer.china.internet/frameset.exclude.html

which is strangely not blocked, because it's CNN I guess. I think actually I might not even be able to view this post because I used the word falun. Orwellian, Big Brother, Panopticon, however you wanna describe it, whatever connections you can make, this web, this undetectable power the goverment holds over its citizens is intimate and everywhere.

edit: just noticed one of the keywords filtered is "freedom" rofl rofl rofl rofl, when i search freedom on google the site gets disconnected.

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

September 14 2007 13:57 GMT

wow scary

im glad im in hONG KONG

come here where it's all nice warm and cozy. haha

CTStalker

Canada9720 Posts

September 14 2007 14:14 GMT

the list of keywords that blocks content is ominous, except for one entry, which is fairly amusing:
# Revolution
# Equality
# Freedom
# Justice
# Taiwan
# Tibet
# Falun Gong
# Dissident
# Democracy
# STD
# Human rights

QuanticHawk

United States32024 Posts

September 14 2007 14:19 GMT

man, thats pretty shitty dude =[

fanta[Rn]

Japan2465 Posts

September 14 2007 14:20 GMT

what's STD and why's there a picture of a PantechEX player in the article?

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

September 14 2007 14:20 GMT

fant[rn] found this random pic of a pantech player in the chinese censorshpi tihng haha wtf so random

CTStalker

Canada9720 Posts

September 14 2007 14:23 GMT

std can mean a few things, but commonly it's sexually transmitted disease

Pressure

7326 Posts

September 14 2007 14:30 GMT

alfffla theres no censorship in HongKong?

alffla

Hong Kong20321 Posts

September 14 2007 14:56 GMT

On September 14 2007 23:30 Pressure wrote:
alfffla theres no censorship in HongKong?

no hong kong totally rox0rz ur balls we're the freest economy in the world kthxbi

Physician

United States4146 Posts

September 14 2007 15:07 GMT

#10

China is not the only nation into this. There are some nations that screen most communication for keywords, or watch specific persons and organizations i.e they don't actively censor but they still watch and use the information in other manners. Nothing online is truly private, for anyone.