Google Banned in China

The same thing happens all over the world. Different country has different situation. Many things work in some countries may not work in others.

 

Please define what is the ordinary Chinese user?

Do you mean the 14 year-old kid with cable internet access who uses Chinese websites exclusively to play games, use QQ, download MP3s, and do homework all in the Chinese language?

Or do you mean the 20 year old computer programming student at university using his school computer lab?

Or do you mean the 36 year old males who view porn on-line in net bars and their bedrooms?

Or do you mean the millions of Chinese women posting pictures on Dating websites looking for a foreign Visa...er...I mean Foreign boyfriend?

Or do you mean the home user ( a foreigner living in China, but using a Chinese internet provider) like me who has DSL and reads many so-called Firwall blocked sites without needing to use a proxy for the most part?

I think a lot of noise is made about the firwall in the west that is blatantly untrue. Outside major centres like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, that Wall doesn't seem so impeneterable.

I believe that a lot of the effectiveness of the Great Firwall varies from location to location in China and the service providers involved. Just like Comcast and Rogers in North America have their own filters, so must local prociders in China. It would certainly explain why my surfing experiences are so much different than that of all the Foreign Whiners living in Beijing who can't view the NYT online, while I seem to have not trouble doing so from the hinterland.

 

This only makes China's name worse....

 

Do you think they care?

 

Well, China is the country of the future. I think they want to get an more or less clean name.

 

if china banned Google or anything the lose only for china and Chinese people ...... WTF who care ?

 

Well look, I have feedback from a friend who uses the net regularly in China, although he may not be the most technological efficient person. Hence, I would call him an average, regular user.

My opinion is based upon somebody else's experience, so of course, as you are Chinese and using the internet, then your opinion triumphs over mine.

Tell me - are you using software to bypass the censors or is it that your area in China is removed from the infamous government censorship?

When I say "average user" I was referring to a regular internet user that doesn't want to or doesn't know how to get access to the necessary software to bypass restrictive web controls.

You admit in your post that the "great firewall" does have an effect on internet usage and that some sites are banned. What sites are banned and, as you post suggests otherwise, is this all over China?

 

Well Google as a corporation for one - that is why they made the infamous and disgraceful deal with the Chinese authorities to censor the search results in order to please their political sensitivities.

 

Hey.. this is fun, at least google now know how is it like being banned LOL )

 

and now youtube banned in china...

 

Thumb up for CHINA

 

bad news . but chines are too smart they know how to use proxys .. lol

 

do you really think so, someone can fare better (for how long) by blocking their citizens mind and liberties
well i would beg to disagree, then again...this is not a political forum

 

Interesting to see china make this move. Did anyone expect this or was it just done over night? What's is China considering opening there own Google copy cat site to supply the China users with search functions?

Interesting and a smart economical move.

 

hehe, neat.... neat

Now let's work harder to get better rankings in Baidu.

 

LOL, what a grate way to get TONS of free Traffic, i wish i can redirect Google to my website... hehehe

 

hmm... tough luck for u ... here in UAE there are alot of blocked websites
but recently they are starting to unblock them

 

omg then next india too will be banned

 

I'm sorry, I'm a chinese,my country is very grotesque.
The government was Carzy and peremptory.
The government has shown a total disregard for the needs of human rights and democracy.
The government have the whip hand of of people ideology.
So most chinese thoughts are in a whirl and sick.
Most chinese are likable at heart , the people are brainwashing for government.
As you say. We have not real Freedom.
We Athirst for freedom.
The struggle for independence is gaining momentum every day.