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/ > > >