Great joke from the Chinese government


They don't censor the Internet. Just ask them
This is just too funny.

"China: We don't censor the internet. Really"

Which is why it came as a surprise on Tuesday when a Chinese government official claimed at a United Nations summit here that no Net censorship existed at all.

The only problem: Few cases of Net censorship are as carefully and publicly documented as the Great Firewall of China. A study by researchers at Harvard Law School found 19,032 Web sites that were inaccessible inside China.

A report from a consortium of British, American and Canadian universities concluded: "China's Internet-filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world. Compared to similar efforts in other states, China's filtering regime is pervasive, sophisticated and effective."

In fact, Google has cited China's intermittent blocking of Google.com as the primary factor in the company's creation of the Google.cn censored search site.

It's already crumbling at the edges. Chinese are pretty innovative at getting around the restrictions.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - October 31, 2006 at 06:55 AM  Tag


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