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/ >> >>