> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schiraldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:18 AM
> > are already blocked in China. If you send an email to some public email
> > address in China with "Freenet" in it, your email will be returned
> > with "contents not welcome". Those bustard!
>
> Are all the web based email sites like hotmail.com blocked as well?
Not a year ago. Not sure now. But they are made very slow in China.
The odd thing is, people from China reported that, not only freenet
sites like freenet.sourceforge.net and freenetproject.org are blocked,
the word "freenet" is taken out of yahoo in China. So when people
search freenet in yahoo in China, they now find nothing! How can that
happen?
But all this will make freenet very famous! Be prepared.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> After all, I'm interested to know what type of
> websites get blocked by the communist party?
freenet.sourceforge.net, freenetproject.org, freenet-china.org
Voice of America (www.voa.gov), BBC (www.bbc.com),
Radio Free Asia (www.rfa.org), Washington Post,
New York Times, CNN, LA Times, etc
Falun Gong (falundafa.org, faluninfo.net, minghui.org ....)
And many many other news, political, human rights,
or religious websites.
China has completely blocked all newsgroups!!!
At one time, Caltech hosted a small website for "Falun Gong
Club in Cultech" on the same server that offers student
services. The Chinese communists block the entire caltech
webserver. So applicants in China were not able to
complete the application until the matter was settled through
high deplomatic channels. And of course, the Club website
was moved out of the Cultech server.
How?
They have a national firewall that filters email and http
packets. If they discover certain key words (like freenet) used
they will examine where they are from, and automatically
block the source, and in many cases, persecute the requester.
In many Internet bars, they have software to discover that
if you trying to visit any banned website (even through
proxy), and set off a sound alarm. The software is
generally called Internet-110, where 110 is the phone number
for police there. The son of the Chinese President directly
oversees the Internet-110 project.
There are also a lot of government supported professional
hackers to hack the above sites. So I knew sooner or later
freenetproject.org will be hacked.
See articles (from search of "great firewall of China")
China: The Great Firewall
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,16545,00.html
http://www.slashdot.org/yro/00/03/11/1223240.shtml
The Great Firewall of China (many different versions)
http://polywog.navpoint.com/sociology/devnat/firewall_of_china/
http://www.e-businessworld.com/english/crd_internet_85253.html
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