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Rudi Rusdiah <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:42:12 +0700
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On 01/14/2011 08:55 AM, Nicolas Adam wrote:
> 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-)
>
Dear nicolas, very diplomatics :-)

just my feeling,  it wont be effective... since it is a virtual and 
borderless world...

By the way,.... besides filter,  many government in the world installing 
lawful interceptions on Internet traffics.. as it is mention in each 
national cyberlaw :-)

Thank you for the reply.
regards, rudy rusdiah - jakarta.
======================

regards,

> 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/
>>>
>>>
>
>

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