Thursday, April 14, 2005

WMCs' (Weapons of Mass Censure)

A study done by Harvard, Cambridge, and University of Toronto has found that China is the world's most sophisticated internet filtering regime. This report states that China uses filters to block certain keywords and entire web sites (yours truly hopes he is one of those sites).
Even more interesting is how China is using American technology to censor the internet. The two companies that were singled out for assisting China were Cisco Systems and Google.
It is also important to understand that China is the main proliferators of internet censuring technology. That combined with the fact that it acts as the regional internet access provider for neighboring countries like North Korea, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan proves that China is not out there for the improvement of the world, but instead for ensuring the power of dictatorial regimes.
It is now up to the rest of the world to stop the spread of WMCs’, and to push China to let its people enjoy the entire World Wide Web and not what the communist party wants them to see.

1 Comments:

Blogger birdwoman said...

they already do. You know as well as I that hackers are always one step ahead of the technology. Chinese have always been smart, ingenuitive people. The message is out there, it's just a matter of time.

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4/16/2005 2:47 PM  

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