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The Great Firewall Of China. Explained.

by Archit on 4/8/11, 9:01 AM with 13 comments

• by ericHosick on 4/8/11, 11:09 AM

  I find that "80% of Australians support the Govt. proposed clean feed internet filter" to be disturbing. The survey has to be wrong and/or I don't quite know what a "clean feed internet filter" is.

  I had a professor in college who once said "What is source code? Well it is kinda like Porn. You know what it is when you see it but you can't quite describe it." Maybe the "clean feed internet filter" is something like that?

• by IsaacL on 4/8/11, 10:31 AM

  This seems mostly accurate from my knowledge of the Great Firewall, but some of the info seems out of date (maybe the video is old). For example: Wikipedia and BBC News have been unblocked for a while now.

• by dvfer on 4/8/11, 1:44 PM

  Well... from a positive perspective, it creates so many jobs. Pointless and a job hated by people around the world. At least no one's dying... or is it a good thing no one's dying?