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The Great Firewall of China


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Interesting site. :thumbsup:

 

From here behind the Great Saudi Firewall, there are a number of sites that aren't blocked exactly, but are on a delay. The BBC News website is a good example - it's usually a few hours behind the real time, presumably as someone in an office checks it for unfavourable news stories. Fewer sites are blocked than in the past - youtube used to be blocked in its entirety, but now individual videos are blocked. This is creating a lot of jobs for Saudis, I think. And a lot fewer UK sites are blocked since the Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into corruption and British Aerospace.

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Hahaha, several commercial and news-sites are blocked, but NONE of the bittorrent sites (that i tried) that are hosting pirated software are blocked. Talk about weird priorities :thumbsup:

"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

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Hahaha, several commercial and news-sites are blocked, but NONE of the bittorrent sites (that i tried) that are hosting pirated software are blocked. Talk about weird priorities :thumbsup:

Weird? Absolutely not. Western news sites are supposed to be the first ones to be blocked, as they usually present an alternative viewpoint to Chinese media. On the other hand, torrents do not pose any political threat, it is mostly entertainment. Also, remember the attitude to intellectual property in China, so who would care about it?

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Wikipedia is blocked. My my, what a surprise!

How can it be a no ob build. It has PROVEN effective. I dare you to show your builds and I will tear you apart in an arugment about how these builds will won them.

- OverPowered Godzilla (OPG)

 

 

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... so some goverment actually believes that wikipedia is trustworthy source of information...

 

Humorous :thumbsup:

 

Is there any kind of list of all countries that have this kind of firewalls? :shifty:

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How can it be a no ob build. It has PROVEN effective. I dare you to show your builds and I will tear you apart in an arugment about how these builds will won them.

- OverPowered Godzilla (OPG)

 

 

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A truly clever dicatatoprship would encourage its citizens to read Wikipedia, so they experience the unsettling chaos and ridiculousness.

"It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"."

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Hahaha, several commercial and news-sites are blocked, but NONE of the bittorrent sites (that i tried) that are hosting pirated software are blocked. Talk about weird priorities :shrugz:

Weird? Absolutely not. Western news sites are supposed to be the first ones to be blocked, as they usually present an alternative viewpoint to Chinese media. On the other hand, torrents do not pose any political threat, it is mostly entertainment. Also, remember the attitude to intellectual property in China, so who would care about it?

Sounds like a perfect medium for pirate political views to breach the Chinese barrier ...

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