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[IP] more on China Uncensored



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From: Jonathan Zittrain <zittrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 9, 2006 1:05:43 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: more on China Uncensored

[in case first mailing got lost]

Dave -
One of our opennet researchers (<http://www.opennet.net>) checked out this graf of the very interesting report sent to IP on China -- 


 - There is a massive program to control content on the Internet. We
have dealt with the "Great Firewall of China", which routinely blocks 
 access to web sites and email that might contain controversial
 content (like all of www.wikipedia.org, and my own
 www.ManifestSpirit.com). Strangely, from most locations in China,
 access to .hk (Hong Kong) web sites is re-routed to www.gov.cn. We
have heard that this Great Firewall employs some 30 _thousand_Chinese.
The blocks described don't seem to be in place. No wholesale rerouting of .hk sites has been noted, at least from Shanghai, nor is access to the author's web site blocked. Of course, mileage varies in these kinds of tests -- what's blocked in one place may not be in another, and what's blocked one day may be opened the next. ...JZ 




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