Thanks andrew,

It provides information about the filter used by the Chinese government ?
But probably not answering about how effective this filter/sensor are ?

Regards, Rudi Rusdiah

On 01/14/2011 07:56 AM, Andrew A. Adams wrote:
> Rudi asked:
>    
>> How effective is a filter and any body know how effective the Chinese
>> government filter political content ?
>>      
> The main aim of the PRC government has been to suppress discussion in Chinese
> between Chinese citizens. They long ago realised that their system was not
> going to be perfect and adopted a "chilling effect" approach combining
> blocking of external websites which contain things likely to promote
> discussion of political change in China and blocking Chinese-language web
> fora where the government was criticised or "democracy on the Western model"
> for China was being promoted or discussed, together with high profile arrest
> and prosecution for persistent online critics resident in China. The
> anti-porn elements seem mainly to be used as a smokescreen for their
> political goals, as a way to justify their general filtering technology and
> other regulations of, e.g. Internet cafes, and to distract Chinese people
> from these political issues by creating a moral panic.
>
> (BTW, any chance of you learning how to use the shift key? English is much
> easier to read when it includes standard capitalisation at the start of
> sentences.)
> -- 
> Professor Andrew A [log in to unmask]
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japanhttp://www.a-cubed.info/
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