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/ >>> >>> > >