Hi Rudy,

It *does* provide lots of information about "how effective" the chinese 
filters are. ;)

It's just that "how effective" isn't a very circumscribed question. 8-)

Nicolas

> 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/
>>
>>