Keeping an eye on 17 million blogs and all-too-sensational on Youtube

March 13th, 2007 - by 2point6billion.com
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Friend of 2point6billion, Jerry Stryker, shares a comment on today’s blog censorship in China and referrs to an all-too-sensational Youtube clip of a day in the life of online games-junkies in a Beijing-outskirts correctional camp!!!…

Here’s an illuminating piece from Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (available by subscription only) with some detail additional to what we know already about how the internet censors do their work in China.  This article is about the censorship of blogs. Presumably the same system, more or less, applies to all email.

Words do matter. 

Also, while we’re on the subject of the internet… have you read about a camp near Beijing where well-off parents send their children to be cured of addiction to computer games? One of several such camps in China, this one costs 10,000 yuan a month and has treated 1500 addicts since it opened in 2004.  A video of the camp in operation was posted to Youtube last November. It runs only three minutes and is available at:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DYp2lw3d-p8

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One Response to “Keeping an eye on 17 million blogs and all-too-sensational on Youtube”

  1. Shantanu Bhagwat Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    Another one for your readers:

    “China, democracy and harmless freedoms…” http://global-themes.com/china-democracy-harmless-freedoms/

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