Well, China just got even more amazing. I don't think the Chinese people were very affected by Google leaving. But DropBox is a very useful tool. I'm not sure it has any remarcable competititors that can relevantly fill the gap.
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> "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?
What is puzzling to me is that although there are literally millions of Chinese people living abroad, apparently there's hardly any human-rights activism done by Chinese expats. I'd love to hear of counterexamples.
I don't follow this issue closely but it strikes me as ridiculous. Descent against China's human rights is not exactly something that many people think about all the time unless it affects them directly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8607769.stm
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/chinese-dissident-...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/24/nobelpeaceprize....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents#Chin...
Chinese dissidents seem to be in the news quite a lot to me, in fact it would seem part of the west's objections is due to the voices of some immigrant Chinese.
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#93Chinese 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…
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#94Chinese 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…
Why China gov doing like this?
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#95It 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.
Red Flat, and it has been around for 11 years:
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#96When I read the comment about how "it was an honor" to be banned by the GFWoC, this poem cam to mind. "When the regime ordered Books with dangerous knowledge To be burned in public and everywhere Oxen were forced to pull, carts with books to the bonfires, one of the persecuted poets discovered one of the best studying the list of the burned disconcerted, that his books were forgotten. He rushed to his desk, flying on…
Chinese government ban sites for the information on it what might threat the stability of the country, it has nothing to do with a company big enough or not. Tons of innocent sites are banned because they are hosted on the same IP address that also hosted some anti-China sites. This event means nothing to Dropbox, it only means someone was using Dropbox to pass through information that is not considered legal in Chin…
I'm curious though, since Dropbox isn't really a way of communicating. I guess someone could have published the url to something in their "public" folder.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tor[1]. [1] http://www.torproject.org/overview.html.en
Tor and almost any website mentioning or hosting it is blocked, on top of that my experience with Tor is that it is no longer usable. First users were forced to use a relay, then relay IP's started getting banned, and now I think that the government has found some method to prevent connections to the Tor network completely (I'm not sure how). Slowly but surely the screws are being tightened, more and more of the west…
The relays still work, the mechanisms to share the relay addresses have changed a bit and continue to do so. Tor's traffic looks like regular https traffic so it's very difficult to block. The tor project makes China one of it's priorities and continually play an escalation war with China's government.
So if it does get blocked its not for long.
I wish I could help you with more specific information off the top of my head, but I fortunately don't have to use relays. I am willing to do some research and share the results here if you like.
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Chinese government ban sites for the information on it what might threat the stability of the country, it has nothing to do with a company big enough or not. Tons of innocent sites are banned because they are hosted on the same IP address that also hosted some anti-China sites. This event means nothing to Dropbox, it only means someone was using Dropbox to pass through information that is not considered legal in Chin…
I'm curious though, since Dropbox isn't really a way of communicating. I guess someone could have published the url to something in their "public" folder.
Dropbox uses https for all of its communication, which makes it a non monitored form of communication. A lot of people use dropbox for sharing files and folders for organizing events. You could also share videos and documents about banned information.