* Cindy Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-11 21:17:17]: > The evil Great Firewall of China cut off any website related with freedom, > of course including freenetproject.org. So the web-installer can not > complete the installation of Freent, and common Chinese people can not > access even this web-installer. Under the wicked autocracy, Chinese people > is in the worst need of free communication, is in the worst need of Freenet. > I, one of these Chinese people, call for a full version of Freenet > installer, for us. > > I find a reliable article about the GFW, quote it here for your reference.
It's beeing worked on : http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/installer_offline.jar Testing and feedback would be welcome. NextGen$ > > =============================== THE BEGINNING > ================================ > China > Behind the Great Firewall > > Ronald Schaefer > OhmyNews International (Independent) > Seoul, South Korea > September 18, 2006 > > What is Manichaeism and who is a Bodhisattva? > > Like most people these days, I am looking for the answers to these or other > questions on Wikipedia, undoubtedly one of the most frequented Web sites of > our time. But unlike most of its users, I first have to activate my > browser's proxy server before the world's accumulated knowledge will appear > on my computer screen. That is because I currently live in China, a country > that heavily controls which Web sites its inhabitants can access, and which > they cannot. Unfortunately, Wikipedia belongs to a long list of blocked > sites in China, and some of its contents remain miraculously hidden even > when using a proxy server. > > Wikipedia could be the most prominent victim of Chinese Internet censorship. > Most foreign news organizations' Web sites are accessible, however, with the > BBC Web site being a notable exception. Most Chinese users will read their > news on homegrown Web sites anyway, making Chinese Web portals more and more > popular. QQ.com was recently ranked as the fifth most trafficked site in the > world, and Sina.com followed closely behind at seventh place. > > The enormous task of controlling the multitude of electronic information > circling around the globe every day lies firmly in the hands of China's own > Internet police, which reportedly employs as many as 50,000 state agents. > They frequently erase critical comments on popular bulletin boards and > occasionally even arrest people who publish un-tolerated opinions online. > > The Great Firewall of China (known as the Golden Shield Project on the > mainland) helps the government to block Web sites by preventing IP addresses > from being routed through, and through selective DNS poisoning when > particular sites are requested. > > Ironically, some of the world's major Internet companies, normally ardent > supporters of free speech, support this system of censorship. The American > company Cisco Systems sold more than 200 routers to the Chinese government > in the summer of 2005, thereby greatly enhancing the government's > technological censoring ability. The Chinese version of the popular Skype > software, a pioneer in the field of Internet telephony, is configured to > censor sensitive words in text chats automatically without informing the > user. > > The corporate heavyweight Microsoft censors the content of its blog service > MSN Spaces. They explicitly censored searches and blog titles to avoid > sensitive political topics and even deleted or blocked whole blogs. Even > Google cooperated with the Chinese authorities, agreeing to block Web sites > that are illegal in China. Its Chinese search engine under www.google.cn is > heavily censored, though not as much as the government-sponsored Baidu > search engine. > > Yahoo cooperated with the Chinese censors to the degree of releasing the > identity of private users to the Chinese authorities. Four prominent Chinese > government critics, Shi Tao, Li Zhi, Jiang Lijun, and Wang Xiaoning, were > subsequently imprisoned and received heavy sentences. > > Human Rights Watch, a renowned nongovernmental organization, recently > strongly criticized all companies that cooperate with the Chinese > authorities in terms of censorship, urging them "to use all legal means to > resist demands for censorship of searches, blogs, and Web addresses. > Companies should only comply with such demands if they are made via legally > binding procedures that can be documented and after the company has > exhausted all reasonable legal means to resist them." > > HRW also called on the United States, the European Union, and other > jurisdictions to prohibit companies from storing private user data on > Chinese Web servers. Rebecca MacKinnon, a consultant to HRW, argued, > "Western Internet companies are complicit in actively censoring political > material without telling users what's happening and why ??? We believe that > companies could act more ethically and still operate in China. It is time > for Internet companies to decide whether they want to be part of the problem > or part of the solution." > > The blocking of certain Web sites is, however, not the only way for the > Chinese government to restrict access to potentially sensitive information. > Very often, some unwanted information is simply erased, and sometimes even > replaced with the official position of the Chinese government. > > Since the country's Internet police could never monitor the entire Chinese > Web all by themselves, Chinese leaders have been trying to mobilize the > masses to help with this monumental task. An initiative named "Let the Winds > of a Civilized Internet Blow" was launched through which many schools, > colleges, and Web portals now police their online grounds themselves. > College bulletin boards especially are thoroughly monitored, very often even > by the college's own students, and almost certainly without the knowledge of > their peers. These student monitors not only delete controversial comments, > but also introduce politically correct themes for discussion. > > Bulletin boards in China are a main source for information, especially for > the growing majority of people who do not have a lot of trust in the > official press anymore. Recently, some universities have started to block > off-campus users from contributing to their bulletin boards and now require > students to log in with their real names. > > Some Chinese have found another medium to express their criticism, anger, > and frustration. In recent times, there have been a growing number of > amateur videos online that parody socialist Chinese movie classics. Their > popularity has skyrocketed in a relatively short time. It seemed that many > Chinese appreciated the opportunity to express their frustrations in a funny > way. > > Now the Chinese government has released new regulations requiring all > Internet video clips to be registered with the State Administration of > Radio, Film, and Television, an organization charged with the censoring and > licensing of movies and television shows. What's more, only specially > authorized Web portals will be allowed to distribute the videos from now on. > > So what is the solution? Of course, it would be best if China would extend > the privilege of censor-free Internet access to all of its citizens, and not > only to the new Chinese students of Kean University. That American College's > new branch in Zhejiang received the exclusive permission from the Chinese > government to connect all their campus computers directly with their > uncensored U.S. servers. > > All other Chinese Internet users interested in unrestricted access to all > the knowledge the Web has to offer will have to continue using proxy servers > or special software such as Anonymizer. That San Diego-based company > recently started an Anti-Censorship operation, not funded by the American > government, that allows Chinese Internet users to access blocked sites using > its especially developed software. Every week or so, the software will be > available for download under a different Internet address (to avoid blocking > by the Chinese censors) and users, once registered, will receive weekly > updates by e-mail. > > ================================ THE END =================================== > _______________________________________________ > chat mailing list > chat@freenetproject.org > Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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