Tyler Butler

Googling in China

Posted by Tyler | Filed under Deep Thoughts, Links

This is an interesting article about filtering and censorship that gets done in China, specifically with Google searches. They’ve got some pretty graphs and actual test results, too. Having grown up behind a filtering proxy server in Papua New Guinea (and having been threatened by a message stating I was being reported to the Directors several times for accessing filtered sites), this seems all too familiar to me. Just this week I received a call here at work from a concerned mother who wanted to get a recommendation on some internet site blockers to install on her son’s laptop now that he’s in college and has his own computer. As ridiculous as that sounded to me (I still think it’s stupid – your son’s in college, woman – you need to let go), at least we don’t have the government monitoring and blocking our internet access. Or do we?

http://www.opennetinitiative.net/bulletins/006/

Tags: news stories

Permalink | September 1, 2004, 1:49 pm

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