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Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by thechangelog »

zaidf wrote: post #8

Chinese gov is ridiculous. My girlfriend made a one word posting on the Chinese clone of facebook that read "freedom". The post disappeared in minutes and she received a private message warning her that her account may be deleted if she continues making such posts. One upside is that Chinese people seem to be a little more tech savvy. ie. many of them are forced to learn about proxy servers so they can go around the…

Not trying to doubt you, but was it really just a one word post that elicited that reaction? Did the message come from Facebook or someone else? Is this a common occurrence?

That level of censorship boggles the mind...

Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by kaptain »

johnswamps wrote: post #9

Is there confirmation besides this one post?

http://shanghaiist.com/2010/05/11/another_one_bites_the_dust...

Or if you're more into empiricism, install this http://chinachannel.hk/ onto Firefox (warning: isn't > 3.5 compatible).

Or you could come over to my apartment here in China and use my internet connection for a bit and commiserate with me.

Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by joshhart »

kaptain wrote: post #2

I live in China as an expat (from the US). It's not really clear to me what the political/social motivations are for blocking Dropbox. Maybe Dropbox is going to merge with Facetwit; that's blocked here too but dropping Dropbox is something new.

Do they block P2P as well? I was under the impression piracy through bittorrent was pretty rampant.

Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by afterburner »

thechangelog wrote: post #11
zaidf wrote: post #8

Chinese gov is ridiculous. My girlfriend made a one word posting on the Chinese clone of facebook that read "freedom". The post disappeared in minutes and she received a private message warning her that her account may be deleted if she continues making such posts. One upside is that Chinese people seem to be a little more tech savvy. ie. many of them are forced to learn about proxy servers so they can go around the…

Not trying to doubt you, but was it really just a one word post that elicited that reaction? Did the message come from Facebook or someone else? Is this a common occurrence? That level of censorship boggles the mind...

Keyword alert?

Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by potatolicious »

twapi wrote: post #15

just one thought on this situation: why don't Chinese netizens protest loudly against such policies??

> "why don't Chinese netizens protest loudly against such policies??"

Here in the West we take the right to protest quite for granted, as this post demonstrates :)

Not ragging on you at all, really, but who exactly would the Chinese protest to? How would they do so? And what would prevent them from being jailed or worse for their efforts?

Re: China drops Dropbox

#17

Post by radicaldreamer »

It's sad how the Chinese government don't seem to realize that they're impeding their own people's progress and global competitiveness, especially for business that requires innovation and speed, with such moves.

Re: China drops Dropbox

#18

Post by kaptain »

aswanson wrote: post #7

It would be a great open source contribution to build similar sharing capabilities into Linux and bsd and watch prc ban operating systems.

Most Chinese use some version of Windows. The PRC built their own variant of Linux; it looks like their building off of the 2.6 kernel but (surprise, surprise) I can't find the source anywhere on their website.

http://www.kylin-os.com/products/os/features.html#googtrans/...

If you use Chrome, it has an auto-translate feature that works pretty well.

Re: China drops Dropbox

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Post by evandavid »

Several months ago I came across an issue where it became obvious that a file in my Dropbox public folder was being blocked by the GFWoC (public files are accessed via the dl.dropbox.com domain). I ran some tests using online services that attempt to access your web resources from within the firewall perimeter, and sure enough my links were blocked. I am surprised that the rest of the story is only now developing.
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