Comments on: Censorship tactics used by Chinese blog host providers http://dontai.com/wp/2009/02/17/censorship-tactics-chinese-bhps/ Have Lemons, Make Lemonade Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:38:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dontai http://dontai.com/wp/2009/02/17/censorship-tactics-chinese-bhps/comment-page-1/#comment-56 dontai Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:10:02 +0000 http://dontai.com/wp/?p=479#comment-56 I have long learned that for internal affairs China answers to no one, so I don't expect China to change quickly on anything. There are cycles of strict and slack control and I don't think this will change because of the Internet. I do agree with Dr. McKinnon's theory that Chinese blogging is a pressure relief valve that allows netizens to blow off steam. If it gets too hot, the censorship tightens up. Before blogging there was censored newspapers, opened and CORRECTED IN RED INK letters, eavesdropped phone calls, tailing Laowai, intimidating Laowai news reporters. These may still exist. Blogging opens up a new frontier but the goals remain the same. Thanks for stopping by, and I do love your <a href="http://thisridiculousworld.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">This Ridiculous World</a> site. Your photos and commentary are great and I had to subscribe. I have long learned that for internal affairs China answers to no one, so I don’t expect China to change quickly on anything. There are cycles of strict and slack control and I don’t think this will change because of the Internet. I do agree with Dr. McKinnon’s theory that Chinese blogging is a pressure relief valve that allows netizens to blow off steam. If it gets too hot, the censorship tightens up.

Before blogging there was censored newspapers, opened and CORRECTED IN RED INK letters, eavesdropped phone calls, tailing Laowai, intimidating Laowai news reporters. These may still exist. Blogging opens up a new frontier but the goals remain the same.

Thanks for stopping by, and I do love your This Ridiculous World site. Your photos and commentary are great and I had to subscribe.

]]> By: This Ridiculous World http://dontai.com/wp/2009/02/17/censorship-tactics-chinese-bhps/comment-page-1/#comment-54 This Ridiculous World Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:27:48 +0000 http://dontai.com/wp/?p=479#comment-54 I think the web censorship here is generally referred to as the "Great Firewall." We had a big problem with that last fall. We had bought our own domain to get around blogger being blocked only to discover the shared IP address that came with our web space was also blocked. Everything seemed to open up a little during the spring, as the Olympics approached both Blogger and Wikipedia became available. Do you think pressure from the rest of the world will encourage China to open up more quickly? Cool site by the way, really interesting posts. I think the web censorship here is generally referred to as the “Great Firewall.” We had a big problem with that last fall. We had bought our own domain to get around blogger being blocked only to discover the shared IP address that came with our web space was also blocked. Everything seemed to open up a little during the spring, as the Olympics approached both Blogger and Wikipedia became available. Do you think pressure from the rest of the world will encourage China to open up more quickly?

Cool site by the way, really interesting posts.

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