Comments on: whither the implications of china’s desire to eliminate porn? http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/ China law blog covering Chinese law, business, and non-profits by Thomas Chow Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/comment-page-1/#comment-7739 Jeff Fri, 29 May 2009 22:53:04 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/06/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/#comment-7739 China firewall is lame, use water to put out the fire of the wall but how do you get over the wall? – use Freedur.com to bypass it. You can bypass China Great Firewall and access youtube, facebook, blogger and all other sites which are blocked. China firewall is lame, use water to put out the fire of the wall but how do you get over the wall? – use Freedur.com to bypass it. You can bypass China Great Firewall and access youtube, facebook, blogger and all other sites which are blocked.

]]> By: chinacomment http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/comment-page-1/#comment-3762 chinacomment Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:15:33 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/06/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/#comment-3762 Ah? here's one article I was thinking about in regards to Chinese net-monitoring: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall Ah? here’s one article I was thinking about in regards to Chinese net-monitoring:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall

]]> By: chinacomment http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 chinacomment Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:48:59 +0000 http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/01/06/whither-the-implications-of-chinas-desire-to-eliminate-adult-material/#comment-3760 >>Any business that wants to deal with internet or media based services in China had better watch out… in fact, they better hire people solely for the purpose of removing objectionable materials that the government points out to them. It is my understanding that the government already requires ISPs to monitor websites for politically subversive content and to remove such content or else risk having their sites taken down and their licenses revoked. (When video-sites came up for licensing, this content-monitoring aspect was part of the deal for approval, I believe). This appears to be a logical progression... and oddly a return to China's 1980's campaigns against moral licentiousness. China's censorship model is a smart model and I am impressed by its innovations. Of course parts of the censorship model can be circumlocuted by utilizing proxy servers and certain websites from inside china, among other technical creativity. Just think- if China forces sites to self-monitor their content and few complain, other countries will learn from China's success and implement similar strategies. First the middle eastern countries, then perhaps America (in the name of protecting the children at first, then in the name of protecting versus terrorism). It's almost a moot point now though about banning the content providers- soon enough it will be easy enough to "strike hard" against the viewers themselves. Surveillance technology is getting better, and access to internet cafes is becoming more and more tied to personal ID. It won't be long before every Chinese citizen can have a file on a local gonganju computer with their entire internet navigation history and every keystroke. And heavens, China appears to intend to require government approval of each companies' internet security software by (March 2008?). I wonder if they might be intending to implant trojans to capture passwords... moving a step up in potential espionage from all the intercepted Tom.com Skype-calls. And when that happens, similar monitoring technology will be available in America as well... between Windows 7's advanced desktop search capabilities and (IE) and Google's near-monopoly on internet searches- theoretically every thing a person types on the internet can be recorded and stored. Still, are there enough people to sift through all that data and decide what is useful and what is useless? To do a general search, certainly not. But if they intend to target someone, well, then- the next few years could theoretically be very menacing indeed to any dangerous political dissident or person who disagrees with a powerful local official who decides to abuse his power. Best, ~chinacomment. >>Any business that wants to deal with internet or media based services in China had better watch out… in fact, they better hire people solely for the purpose of removing objectionable materials that the government points out to them.

It is my understanding that the government already requires ISPs to monitor websites for politically subversive content and to remove such content or else risk having their sites taken down and their licenses revoked. (When video-sites came up for licensing, this content-monitoring aspect was part of the deal for approval, I believe). This appears to be a logical progression… and oddly a return to China’s 1980’s campaigns against moral licentiousness.

China’s censorship model is a smart model and I am impressed by its innovations. Of course parts of the censorship model can be circumlocuted by utilizing proxy servers and certain websites from inside china, among other technical creativity.

Just think- if China forces sites to self-monitor their content and few complain, other countries will learn from China’s success and implement similar strategies. First the middle eastern countries, then perhaps America (in the name of protecting the children at first, then in the name of protecting versus terrorism). It’s almost a moot point now though about banning the content providers- soon enough it will be easy enough to “strike hard” against the viewers themselves.

Surveillance technology is getting better, and access to internet cafes is becoming more and more tied to personal ID. It won’t be long before every Chinese citizen can have a file on a local gonganju computer with their entire internet navigation history and every keystroke. And heavens, China appears to intend to require government approval of each companies’ internet security software by (March 2008?). I wonder if they might be intending to implant trojans to capture passwords… moving a step up in potential espionage from all the intercepted Tom.com Skype-calls.

And when that happens, similar monitoring technology will be available in America as well… between Windows 7’s advanced desktop search capabilities and (IE) and Google’s near-monopoly on internet searches- theoretically every thing a person types on the internet can be recorded and stored.

Still, are there enough people to sift through all that data and decide what is useful and what is useless? To do a general search, certainly not. But if they intend to target someone, well, then- the next few years could theoretically be very menacing indeed to any dangerous political dissident or person who disagrees with a powerful local official who decides to abuse his power.

Best,
~chinacomment.

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