[governance] China backs down on filter?

[Eric Dierker]

This is the new big brother. "Regimes" are slowly but surely realizing that blocking access to information is not working.  But now they know it is better to see who is accessing that information -- kind of like our cookies, phishing and mining, only I somehow doubt theirs will be used to generate leads and make sales.
There was news out of Hanoi today, on a new restriction on hooking up on mobile "throwaway devices".  See Hanoi has been doing this data useage collection all along so the kids were just getting smart and using untraceable accounts via mobile phones.  It is fun like the drug trade of the early 90s, make one substance illegal, then the chemies would just alter one element and make a different drug.  China cannot keep up with the youth.

--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Joe Baptista <baptista at publicroot.org> wrote:


From: Joe Baptista <baptista at publicroot.org>
Subject: Re: [governance] China backs down on filter?
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org, "Ginger Paque" <gpaque at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 11:42 PM





On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:

According to: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090630/ap_on_hi_te/as_tec_china_internet

"BEIJING - In a rare reversal, China's government gave in to domestic and international pressure and backed down Tuesday from a rule that would have required personal computers sold in the country to have Internet-filtering software."

Does anyone have more news on this?

Yes I do.  This is not a rare reversal.  This is precedent setting.

But I have no doubt the Chinese have an alternate covert plan in the works.

cheers
joe baptista
 




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