Hey,
let's keep this discussion NPOV Wikipedia-style - especially when talking
about a country that is being potrayed in the media as the sleeping evil
giant on the one hand and the next world superpower (and hope) by the
others.
It is correct, that many things in the People's Republic of China may not be
dealt with in the same way as the West / the free world, but let's not start
repeating obvious propaganda messages and statements of the other extreme.
In regards to the subject at hand, I'm not sure what the reason for
unblocking is and the Olympics are not necessarily the reason for
_everything_ happening in the PR at the moment. I know my fair bit on the
GWC topic and I am fairly certain that blocking is cheaper and more
effective than unblocking, disregardless of if they are tracking who is
looking at what, when, why and how.
Ian
[[User:Poeloq]]
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Probably cheaper too. You gotta pay all the spooks
monitoring people (and
the snatch and grab teams kidnapping them, and the interrogators etc.). All
that money could be used for more important things (like bribes, and lining
corrupt officials pockets).
-dan
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ian A. Holton
<poeloq(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ting, confirmation of the unblock? I can confirm this. I have a server
in
Beijing
which had access, my friends in Beijing have access and I can
also
> confirm that access to Wikipedia, both English and Chinese, was
unblocked
in
Huludao (Liaoning Province) as of today.
[snip]
Perhaps it's just become considered better to allow access then track
who reads what. :-/
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