Spot the difference

[formerly known as hf]

1.http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&lr=&q=tiananmen
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&lr=&q=tiananmen

2.http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=free+tibet
http://images.google.cn/images?svnum=10&hl=zh-CN&lr=&cr=countryCN&q=free+tibet

[deadboy]

[Phalynx]

Nice piece of work....

Google really sold out, its a disgrace!

[Phalynx]

Sorry I had to nick that and post it elsewhere too!

[SekoETC]

I can't load google.cn at all. Is that the point?

[Chris Johnson]

oooo.... so they are censoring the censorship now ?

[Mafia Salad]

Did you notice the addresses with the pictures, most of the Google.cn ones are for Chinese websites. I assume part of Google’s international web sites programming is to make it relevant to the people using it. A.k.a. bringing up sites in the language they use. If people who speak different language associate different words (or in this case places) with different images then that is what their websites will reflect. Big surprise.

[rklenseth]

Actually, Mafia, Google is censoring these things on their China version of google. It was reported in the news about a week ago. Anything anti-Chinese cannot be found on the Chinese Google site from now on.

[Mafia Salad]

Oh, that's intresting, I kinda hate not having a TV around, I'm too lazy to read the news so I've been most of the way out of the loop for about a month.

[BladeofGrass]

Thers alot more of this going on then people would think. I read a storie in the newspaper about it last week I think, and thers this group...kinda like watch dogs who hack this stuff to get the truth out. Its from a basement computer lab in Toronto I think.

[Nalaris]

Dang! I hate Communist nations because they innundate their citizens with propaganda.

Oh wait. That happens in Democratic nations too. Never mind.

Just remember, if anything ever goes wrong, blame the Communists.

[formerly known as hf]

thers this group...kinda like watch dogs who hack this stuff to get the truth out. Its from a basement computer lab in Toronto I think.

Yeah, and the next series starts at 10pm, Tuesday on Fox

Seriously, though, if you live in China and want to get past the Government firewall, it's not all that difficult.

There's no 'underground hacking' or anything like that, it's easily done by anyone with a small knowledge of the 'net. You need to find an anonymous proxy server (Which means it only reports its own IP address when it connects to another server, not that of the user as well) which is based outside of China's Government Firewall (i.e: Not in China).

(Many people use anonymous proxy servers outside of China. Every website you visit records your IP address, every search term on any search engine gets recorded alongside the address, every gmail e-mail received is recorded with your IP address, and the US authorities can ask for those lists of where you've visitied, what you've searched for, and read your e-mails without having to get a warrant once 6 months have passed. Which means, if you have 'bomb' of 'al qaeda' etc. somewhere in anything you search for, or any e-mails you receive (even if totally innocent), someone in the FBI will be reading every single e-mail and every single search term that you get and use...)

Anyway, as long as the IP of that proxy server doesn't become blocked by the Chinese Firewall, anyone in China can use it to surf outside the 'wall. It's illegal, but very unlikely you will be caught as they can't trace your IP. All that might happen is that the IP address of the proxy will get banned, in which case you have to find another, and there's thousands of lists going around, so that's not a problem.

Like many things on the 'Net, it's illegal, but due to the nature of the 'Net, the authorities will always be one step behind.

[formerly known as hf]

/wonders how long it will be until the Chinese Authorities find that post and add the Cantr II discussion forums to the ban list...

[BladeofGrass]

I cant help get the feeling that you are ridiculing me Hallucinatingfarmer.

[Phalynx]

Oh yeah its easy to bypass the Chinese Authoritites Firewall...

except that I imagine a tiny percentage of the population have any form if internet access...

I thing its wrong to use the word 'primitive' but I understand that vast chunks of china are underdeveloped, I suspect it is in the interests of the authorities for it to remain so... for improvement to continue in measured steps that they can control!

But I know nothing..