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China Defends Its Great Firewall

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Posted on Jan 22, 2010
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An Amnesty International poster advocates for the release of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist sentenced to 10 years in 2005 for sending an email to a Chinese pro-democracy site. Shi was arrested after Yahoo, under pressure from the Chinese government, released his personal details.

More than a week after a row between China and Google over censorship practices, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly called on Beijing to lift restrictions on Internet use, to which China responded by denouncing the criticism as “groundless” and a form of “information imperialism.” —JCL

The BBC:

China has denounced US criticism of its internet controls, saying it could harm ties between the two countries.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for China to lift restrictions on the internet.

Mrs Clinton also urged Beijing to investigate Google’s complaints that cyber attacks had originated in China.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the US should “respect the facts” and stop making “groundless accusations against China”.

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By rollzone, January 23, 2010 at 9:16 pm Link to this comment

hello. sad that Google would cave. China may be able to buy the best hackers, but i would rather see Google pull out of their market. corporate intellectual property; as well as private information; is owned: and what China may be doing is considered theft. ...another example of the greed of capitalism. capitalism is very intoxicating, and the propaganda which drives its profits: always makes bulletins questionable by ulterior motive. ownership implies inherent reward, and theft may lead to an advancement: but theft deprives the author (or creator) of achievement: their rightful reward of gainful compensation. it becomes if/then (insert program) when we know the facts. the question as always is: do we know the facts?

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By stellarwinds, January 22, 2010 at 7:04 pm Link to this comment

Boo hoo !

the bad little Chinese !

but when the fascist nato in Afghanistan warmonger berlusconi outlaws posting on youtube or other such things, then it’s OK?

then not a peep from neocon hillary !

this is so one sided, no wonder noboby believes a word the uSSa is saying.

Sorry, China has more credibility than uSSa.

as for google, they used to be OK at the very beginning up to the point they refused to cooperate with uSSa spooks…  then their share price tanked.

then they caved, share price through the roof.

today the whole world knows they’re a neocon chosen instrument keeping tons of data on every single person or entity in the world.

google is big brother’s arm.

the Chinese are absolutely right to keep it under wraps lest they attempt one of their little colored revolutions, you know combined with a little HAARP earthquake, with a little homemade virus, etc… classic neocon regime change BS.

Somebody’s gonna have to zap ‘meriKKKa off the face of the planet, I’m with China.  I’ve had it with the evil matrix.

I am caucasian, middle aged, very well educated, top revenue scale, living in “western” hemisphere paradise playground.

red or blue pill?  don’t like either much, but China is a better bet.

uSSa leads to oblivion.  We’re already there.

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