Comments on: What Does China Censor Online?

By: someguy

someguy — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:04:42 +0000

Although some facts are wrong (such as the 163.com thing) the last time this page was updated was 2009. so unless I’m a year off, right now it’s 2010. so some of these pages like wikipedia, amazon, eBay and addicting games, in fact loads have now been uncensored or never been blocked in the first place.
The reason pages have been blocked is because several sites contain images and information of protests to do with relationships between Tibet and China (Tibet wants to be freed from China) and other such protests. It is to help prevent outrages, riots and violent protests happening in and out of China, so that China can deal with it’s own problems without having to deal with the rest of the world.
I myself believe that blocking sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook isn’t wrong or right, although Facebook and Twitter are sources of social life and connecting with friends, and YouTube is a well-known source of entertainment. I understand that blocking a lot of these sites can prevent violence and maintain peace, and without having many problems. If I put myself into the Governments position, I would do the same thing. Blocking specific videos of Tibetan captives being beaten by Chinese police are hard to block off YouTube, as 24 HOURS of video are uploaded every minute. And the same goes with trying to block pages and groups off Facebook and tweets off Twitter.
So if you’ve ever wondered why these pages have been censored, the reasons above are the answer. (A 13 year old nerd just wrote this and that’s why it says so much about facebook and Twitter)

By: lies

lies — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:07:31 +0000

this is not correct
in fact this is almost pure fantasy, especially Wikipedia which even have Chinese articles
the most ridiculous one is http://www.163.com/
it’s a Chinese news website and many Chinese people have an email finishing by @163.com

By: samuel welsh

samuel welsh — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:02:43 +0000

there afraid of demoracy

By: facepalm

facepalm — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:20:11 +0000

for f**k’s sake learn to read people:
“censored websites are either inaccessible or have contentious pages blocked”

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By: David

David — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:25:20 +0000

Half of those are not true – I can see quite a few websites in there that I’ve not had any trouble accessing when I was in China.

[That's censorship working. Individual pages or entire sections of sites are often blocked - David]

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