China shuts thousands of websites in clean-up campaign: Xinhua

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China shuts thousands of websites in clean-up campaign: Xinhua

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SHANGHAI: China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against "harmful" online information, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, citing the country's illegal publication watchdog.

China keeps the internet under tight control and has been cracking down on a range of illegal online activities including pornography, gambling, religious proselytising and even "spreading rumours".

In a campaign that started in May, the authorities tackled 120 violations and ordered 230 firms to rectify irregularities. More than 147,000 pieces of harmful information were removed by the end of August, according to China's National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications.

Xinhua said the campaign targeted content in online fiction that spread improper values, vulgarity and obscenity, as well as content that infringed on copyright.

Authorities announced last week that they had busted a live-streaming pornography platform hosted in Cambodia and said to have more than 3.5 million registered users.

(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Nick Macfie)

[Mr. B1ack]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 02:35:41 +0000 (UTC), anonymous
<anon...@anonymous.com> wrote:

>China shuts thousands of websites in clean-up campaign: Xinhua
>
><https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/china-shuts-thousands-of-websites-in-clean-up-campaign-xinhua-10747570>
>
>SHANGHAI: China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a
>three-month campaign against "harmful" online information, the official Xinhua news

>agency said on Saturday ...

Yep, still good little leftists ........ worse enemies of
logic and diversity than the Inquisition.

[Byker]

"Byker" wrote in message news:...

"Mr. B1ack" wrote in message
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It's estimated that for every 300 Chinese who have an internet account,
there's a government censor monitoring them. It's not working. The latest
fad among young Chinese involves exploiting flaws in the "Great Firewall"
and DNS (Domain Name Server) system that controls all Internet traffic.

We can learn something from the Chinese experience. The government recently
ordered its Internet censors to crack down on what people say on Chinese
social media. This quickly led to many local critics (or simply
commentators) of the Chinese government disappearing from the Chinese
Internet. This does not surprise most Chinese, especially since in 2013 the
government finally revealed the number of people (two million) involved in
Internet censorship operations. This operation is called Golden Shield (or
"Great Firewall of China" in the West) and it's a huge information control
system that has been under construction since for over a decade. Before the
new revelations, Golden Shield was believed to have at least 40,000 full
time Ministry of Public Security employees dedicated to monitoring and
censoring Internet use throughout the country

The Golden Shield does not keep the truth out and many of those who know the
most about what's going on in China are getting out. For example, thousands
of the smartest people in the country still go off each year to attend
graduate school in the West and do not return. Many of the graduate students
from the 1970s and 80s have returned and many have founded hugely successful
businesses. But now a third of China's most successful businessmen -- and
women -- are moving their families and fortunes overseas.

So now they have one Internet censor for every 300 users. Is it really
working? Nope...

[Siri Cruise]

In article <P7mdnbBdNIisElrG...@supernews.com>,

"Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

> It's estimated that for every 300 Chinese who have an internet account,
> there's a government censor monitoring them. It's not working. The latest
> fad among young Chinese involves exploiting flaws in the "Great Firewall"
> and DNS (Domain Name Server) system that controls all Internet traffic.

On a technical note DNS does not control internet traffic. Underlying all packet
routing is the IP address which gives a unique 32 or 64 bit number to every
machine connected to the internetwork. That is what is used by routers to
control internet traffic. DNS is just one convenient way to convert a human
readable name into an IP address.

The filterring is by IP addresses. Some ranges of IP addresses are assigned to
particular countries and companies, so the firewall doesn't have to have a
separate entry for each four billion (IPv4) or 1.8E19 (IPv6) IP address, but
even an address from a 'safe' range can be purchased, springing another leak
that has to plugged by hand.

They can also hide messages inside pictures, movies, and other text.

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