Posts Tagged ‘GFW’

22
Mar

A Remarkable Moment of Google For China

On 2010, March, 23rd, 3AM (Beijing Time), Google announced that it would no longer censor the search results for the Chinese Government in Google.cn, which is subsequently redirected to Google.com.hk. I appreciate that Google has made such a brave decision to counter our Government to promote the freedom of Internet (freedom of Speech), which is [...]

22
Sep

CSCI 383 Lecture 3-4: Abstraction

We discussed: Abstraction and Information Hiding Levels of Abstraction Forms of Abstraction A Short History of Abstraction Here are the slides: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dc7f6bh9_32g3tkmqcb Since the Google Docs Presentation could not be embedded into WordPress blogs, I created a Slideshare.net account today and uploaded the slides. It looks good. CSCI 383 Lecture 3 and 4: Abstraction View more [...]

18
Jun

When GFW encounters Micor-Blogging (1)

I have only a Chinese version yet: #lvba #greendam 当GFW遭遇微博客(1) In this first article, I try to analysis the huge impact of the uprising of micro-blogging  services towards the Great Firewall (GFW), which is created by the Chinese government to censor the Chinese Internet. My website was blocked by the GFW from August 2008 to [...]

26
Mar

Why Youtube is blocked in China agian?

This BBC news article says it is about a video, and I find it here: http://media.phayul.com/?av_id=147&av_links_id=323 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZL9zvQ3Sc Speechless. When you are blocking information sources without a good reason, we tend to think you are hiding the truth.

09
Nov

Journey to the heart of Internet in China

Here is a detailed report on how the Internet was controlled by the Chinese government.  Journey to the heart of Internet in China (Download pdf version).  Since I believe that  in order to build a better society, it is extremely important to let my fellow citizens to have free access of information, I will spend a big [...]

06
Aug

Proof that my site is blocked from China

It means that most of the people in China could not ‘see’ my website anymore. There is something called the Great Fire Wall(GFW) which is used by our government to censor the Internet.You could do your own test by following this link: http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html