Comments on: on censorship http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Anonymous Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:36:00 +0000 http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/#comment-11 Speaking of internet control, I thought you might be interested in this memo describing some of the reasons why the Chinese are comfortable with the idea of government control of the internet.<br/><br/>Deb<br/><br/>http://pewresearch.org/pubs/776/china-internet Speaking of internet control, I thought you might be interested in this memo describing some of the reasons why the Chinese are comfortable with the idea of government control of the internet.

Deb

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/776/china-internet

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Anonymous Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:04:00 +0000 http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/#comment-5 Vance,<br/><br/>Nice blog - I guess I'm the only kid on the block not to have one ;)<br/><br/>Big yes on all the frustrations you mention. I recently paid for a proxy which seems to get me through.<br/><br/>But, I went out of the country for 2 weeks, and just got back today and every search seems to be crawling. Don't know why. And, I did a search on a news story related to a communicable disease starting with a and ending with x and everything froze. Didn't matter if I went through Yahoo, Google, and even the new search engine Cuil. Strange -- I did the same search minus that one word and it was fine. Unfortunately, I searched this about half a dozen times before figuring it out so they probably have my number now...<br/><br/>lc Vance,

Nice blog – I guess I’m the only kid on the block not to have one ;)

Big yes on all the frustrations you mention. I recently paid for a proxy which seems to get me through.

But, I went out of the country for 2 weeks, and just got back today and every search seems to be crawling. Don’t know why. And, I did a search on a news story related to a communicable disease starting with a and ending with x and everything froze. Didn’t matter if I went through Yahoo, Google, and even the new search engine Cuil. Strange — I did the same search minus that one word and it was fine. Unfortunately, I searched this about half a dozen times before figuring it out so they probably have my number now…

lc

]]> By: John http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/comment-page-1/#comment-3 John Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:42:00 +0000 http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/07/on-censorship/#comment-3 Hey Vance!<br/>This issue was on NBC Nightly News last night as a major story, which I was kind of shocked by (big coverage). Many of the reporters going to the Olympics have never been to China before, and then are so shocked when they can't access these sites but they were promised they could. It's called: "Welcome to China, the government can do whatever it wants!" I'm glad they got this wake up call and think they should stop whining and ask their companies to set up VPN's if its so important they access blogs about Tibet and wikipedia to report on the Olympics. The NBC news story showed the head of Danwei.org setting up a VPN and saying that the reporters were "whining". Haha.<br/><br/>Glad to see you're breathing an API of 30 over there! Hey Vance!
This issue was on NBC Nightly News last night as a major story, which I was kind of shocked by (big coverage). Many of the reporters going to the Olympics have never been to China before, and then are so shocked when they can’t access these sites but they were promised they could. It’s called: “Welcome to China, the government can do whatever it wants!” I’m glad they got this wake up call and think they should stop whining and ask their companies to set up VPN’s if its so important they access blogs about Tibet and wikipedia to report on the Olympics. The NBC news story showed the head of Danwei.org setting up a VPN and saying that the reporters were “whining”. Haha.

Glad to see you’re breathing an API of 30 over there!

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