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  • September 19, 2006 at 1:41 pm #21768
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    I didn't have any trouble accessing American news sources on the Internet while I was in China. I was able to access the LA Times and I think it is probably easy to access news from forums that the Chinese government is unaware of and not really monitoring. It would be interesting to see what happens in case an international crisis that affected China were to come about. I wonder how easy it would be to monitor all Internet traffic?

    May 24, 2007 at 3:46 am #21769
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    Perhaps one of the most far-reaching by-products of the information age will be the increasing inability of any agency, government or group of people to supress information. It seems as though it would be virtually impossible for the Chinese government or any government for that matter to censor the myriad of internet sources. In the age of phone cameras and the increasing proliferation of news and information over the internet, can censorship, as we have historically known it, even exist in our modern times?

    July 30, 2007 at 11:27 am #21770
    clay dube
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    In fact, the Chinese government is able to block much of what it wants to keep out. There are elaborate filters in place on the cables carrying websites into China. The government, though, is much less concerned with English language sites than those in Chinese.

    Here are some resources:
    Berkeley 2004 conference (panel 2 on censorship)
    http://journalism.berkeley.edu/conf/chinadf/schedule.html

    Rebecca MacKinnon, formerly of CNN, writing for YaleGlobal
    http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5928

    2006 Washington Post graphic illustrating control
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/02/18/GR2006021801603.html

    This graphic was part of Philip Pan's great series on the Great Firewall of China
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801389.html

    August 12, 2011 at 1:24 pm #21771
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    Social medis sites like facebook, twitter, and free blog sites like blogger.com are been blocked throughout China, but the BBC news and other western news site are not blocked so much any more. So the Chinese govt is more scared of social media sites then in blocking the western news

    August 13, 2011 at 8:26 am #21772
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    In an article from the New York Times dates January 15, 2010 entitled “Scaling the Digital Wall in China”, the authors make the point that the great firewall of China is not working. The article goes on to say ,”Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censorship systems designed to restrict them.”
    It is reported that only a small percentage of Chinese use these tools to get around government filters but the ease with which they can do it shows the challenges that the government faces in enforcing the type of strict censorship that was possible a few years ago. College students and business men regularly go around the filters and blocks set up by the government. It is the consensus that the government concentrates its efforts on prominent dissidents who publish information about forbidden topics online.

    August 13, 2011 at 8:53 am #21773
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    The following story was aired today on NTD television. Taiwan’s pro-independence Democratic Progress Party, or DPP, reported that the e-mail accounts of senior staff have been hacked by China’s Communist regime on Tuesday. It says IP addresses linked to China have been accessing email accounts of staff at the Party’s headquarters. Accounts of officers working on the presidential campaign for Party leader Tsai Ing-wen also have been compromised. The concern is that this is an attempt to interfere in Taiwan’s fair election. Until the intrusion is stopped, the staff member have reverted to pen and paper for communication

    August 13, 2011 at 8:53 am #3875
    clay dube
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    Much has been made of new sources of information in China and elsewhere. For example, text messaging and web accessibility for cell phones has received a lot of attention, especially during the recent anti-Japanese protests.

    EastWestNorthSouth, a fascinating blog, has details about the uses both protesters and the Chinese government has made of this technology: http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050417_2.htm

    Of course, television and radio retain even larger audiences. Ryan Finestad, an AsiaMedia staffer, has recently written about a NY-based effort to by-pass Chinese state media controls:

    http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=23299

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