China to require PCs with software to block sites
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Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#2Is the Great Firewall of China not effective enough?
Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#3Is the Great Firewall of China not effective enough?
I suspect this is motivated by performance concerns. The overhead of the centralized filtering they do is massive, and a friend living in China tells me that it hurts net responsiveness badly. Since the Chinese government already seems to have decided a while ago that it's only interested in preventing casual access to subversive material and doesn't care about anyone determined enough to bother connecting through a proxy server, it makes sense to decentralize the load by moving the filtering logic onto the client.
If I'm right, though, this presents an enticing opportunity for some vigilante freedom fighting: write a worm that disables the filtering software.
Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#4Does this mean Windows is the only approved OS?
Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#5"And the truth is: there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting submission."
Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#6Is the Great Firewall of China not effective enough?
I suspect this is motivated by performance concerns. The overhead of the centralized filtering they do is massive, and a friend living in China tells me that it hurts net responsiveness badly. Since the Chinese government already seems to have decided a while ago that it's only interested in preventing casual access to subversive material and doesn't care about anyone determined enough to bother connecting through a…
So how long till the rest of the world adopts the same approach. Australia is having problems with proposed filtering because of performance concerns, so this would be a solution from their point of view as well.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect this is motivated by performance concerns. The overhead of the centralized filtering they do is massive, and a friend living in China tells me that it hurts net responsiveness badly. Since the Chinese government already seems to have decided a while ago that it's only interested in preventing casual access to subversive material and doesn't care about anyone determined enough to bother connecting through a…
So how long till the rest of the world adopts the same approach. Australia is having problems with proposed filtering because of performance concerns, so this would be a solution from their point of view as well.
I hope you're right. Requiring censoring software to be installed on people's PC's may get people's attention. Currently awareness here is very low. The performance issues have been getting a big portion of the attention, if is to be had. This has been ammunition for the opposition to the plan on with hand but a mask on the issue with the other.
The ISPs and other opposition press the performance issues because it's easy & doesn't require value judgements. But we should be talking about (I hate to sound like an American Libertarian) the liberty issues.
Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#8Question: Would VMing Ubuntu get you around this problem, or does the software block reach into it?
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#9"And the truth is: there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting submission."
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Re: China to require PCs with software to block sites
#10Question: Would VMing Ubuntu get you around this problem, or does the software block reach into it?
Maybe you can just uninstall that sofware? If it is not programmed into NIC...