Chinese to Boycott Internet!
In spite of international protests, the Chinese government intends to implement the internet filter program, “Green Dam”, on all computers shipped in China after July 1. The New York Times indicated that he Obama administration lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government over its plan to force all computers to block access to certain Web sites. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke sent a letter to officials in two Chinese ministries asking them to rescind this order.
Mandated under the pretense that it will block pornography, this measure involves the installation of software that blocks “certain” internet sites. But, according to Reuters, many web users and activists both inside and outside China fear that this campaign against “unhealthy” sites is just a pretext for a wider crackdown on groups and websites that the government fears or disapproves of. With obvious and significant coincidence, July 1 is also the anniversary of the founding of China’s Communist Party.
In response to this authoritarian diktat, the mass of Chinese internet users are calling on their comrades to cease all internet activity for one day on July 1. As reported by Reuters, Ai Weiwei, the Beijing artist who helped design the recent Olympic Bird’s Nest stadium, urged web users to “”Stop any online activities, including working, reading, chatting, blogging, gaming and mailing,” Ai wrote in the Chinese-language post. “Don’t explain your behavior.”
If successful, this could be the largest mass protest in history. In January, the China Network Information Center (CNNIC) reported that there were 298 million internet users in China. This astounding number is not only growing, but is nearly equal to the entire population of the United States.
Is a “Cyber Tiananmen Square” brewing in China?
And Australia is silently going the same way with noone noticing or caring……thus dies democracy
Interesting, I`ll quote it on my site later.
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