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- upick, on 07/10/2009, -3/+34I thought they would have blocked digg all together considering they have that Great FireWall of China
- ennuisquared, on 07/10/2009, -1/+22布尔什特!
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -3/+23I'm Chinese, I live in China, and we're being oppressed here! HELP, United Nations! I had to post this from my hacked Blackberry OH NO THE SECRET POLICE FORCE SAW ME DO ITGERBGERJSsdigsrigoasergba4th43t439tv3w4t8293c133333333333333333
- jlian, on 07/10/2009, -0/+19As a Chinese, I find it incredibly stupid that the Chinese government still does this...
- bkraj, on 07/10/2009, -1/+15It says "*****" for anyone who doesn't want to look it up.
- theaceoface, on 07/10/2009, -1/+13I always new Hu Jintao was a reddit user!...but in all seriousness, it's a shame china is so hell bent of restricting the flow of information to and from its citizens. I hope the government will come to understand that progress and innovation will only flourish when there is no censorship.
- shalinshaun, on 07/10/2009, -0/+11A simple solution for China, ban the internet instead of baning sites one by one. Both ways it makes the no sense though!
- omefrans, on 07/10/2009, -0/+10I have to revise my comment above: it is NOT possible to submit a new link to Digg at the moment, it seems, regardless of whether the link is blocked or not.
- wontstoptalking, on 07/10/2009, -0/+9I wrote a report on this.
It (the Great Firewall of China...not my paper) is pretty bad; even worse than I thought when I choose it as my paper's topic.
TV stations (like the US's NBC, CBS, etc) do not have the rights to the television shows they air. Instead, each station gets to pick from a pool of TV shows that they get to show.
During the prime time (when the most viewers are watching) no foreign shows can air (so the most view time goes to Chinese based and approved shows)
When there was a sars breakout, the media was told not to report it to keep things calmed down. Luckily, though, by way of text messages, most people were informed.
Until they started censoring text messages a few years back... - anexanhume, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8China, banning websites?
http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/7/4/6335077471 ... - whoreable, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6I guess they were afraid that one day we might actually digg our way to China.
- wontstoptalking, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6-Your friend,
Google Translator
(dugg) - omefrans, on 07/10/2009, -1/+7I had trouble digging some pages, and now I know that I am not the only one. For what it is worth, here in Beijing (I heard the censoring is dependent on where in China you are) it is not possible at this moment to submit a link to Digg to a site that is blocked. Sites that are not blocked can be dugg, though.
- Khiva, on 07/10/2009, -1/+7It'll only take another five or six minutes for someone from the mainland to scurry in here and shout that "China must ban all foreign websites because they are biased against China! The filtered news that I have been selectively exposed to my whole life speaks the unvarnished truth!"
You guys think I'm exaggerating. I was traveling around China with a Chinese friend of mine - urban, educated, sophisticated - and I picked up a book on Mao, published by the Chinese government, that was just the most hilarious propaganda I'd ever come across. I was amusing myself with it, and she looked at me with genuine confusion and said "No, you don't understand, in China all the books are checked by the government to make sure they tell only the truth."
Don't get me wrong - I love China and I think that they're going to end up contributing way more to the world that anyone expects (I'll bet hard money for example that they're going to nail down green energy before anyone else, in part to secure their otherwise tenuous energy supply). But talking to the folks about politics is practically paleolithic. - NewsFeed, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Update from Digg: "I believe this situation is likely a combination of two factors: occasionally, the Chinese government blocks some sites which means we can’t crawl it as part of our submission process & we’re still making tweaks to our new dupe detection engine which may have a bug related to the time out process when digging through a submission.”
- odkin, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Well, China IS a dangerous nuclear-armed totalitarian communist dictatorship. What do you expect?
Of course, Diggers don't so much care about existential threats to their existence. It takes China showing bad internet manners to get their attention. - angryfirelord, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5CARRIER LOST
- Joe_rigby, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5I was dugg down for suggesting such a thing in Feb.
Please see:
http://digg.com/environment/China_declares_drought ...
heh - twiztidsinz, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5Yeah cuz it'd be totally unheard of for China to block a popular internet site....
- scarz99, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3No! I'm going there in a day!
- Mushroomer25, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3This is proof that blocking the freedom of speech is useless in an internet-savvy era. There are so many outlets to say what you want, available at all times, you can't block every single one (just the larger ones).
I really wouldn't be suprised if China launched a full-on ban of the internet as a whole. It's the only way to keep their people's minds "clean".
However, a full ban of the net would cripple tech development, ***** up the economy, as well as piss off hundreds of millions of citizens. - brinkofjon, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4What happened to you, China? You used to be cool.
- handler, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3In communist China Shovels digg you!
- Chebsi, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4Can someone look it up and tell me if he's telling the truth?
- whoreable, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3Long time?
- kaosethema, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2umm, u sound surprised....
- Suricou, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2I think it's about time for every news and social networking site to support TLS. It wouldn't make censoring the sites impossible - but it would make doing so a whole lot harder. It'd have to be done for a whole IP, not just pages selectively.
- IAMRaven, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Aren't you glad you don't live in China, where would would not be able to reply to me!? Chinese people are awesome. Their government is what sucks. I should have been more clear. Sorry.
- RiperSnifle, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2***** the Chinese Communist Party. Not because they're Chinese or Communist, but because they're complete ***** douchebags.
- joaquine, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2We got to begin sending them owls or something for people to express themselves. Back to basics I guess.... they used to have good messengers back in the day.
- Railz, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21/4 of the population has what you just listed.
- powertruth, on 07/11/2009, -1/+3China has never blocked this website since I know digg.com.
I am in Sichuan province in Southwesten China.
I can access digg.com at any time.
In fact, We can see any websites using WEB proxy server,and it is really easy to use.
Even I can open Youtube,can surf so-called porn website.
so,the truth is China are not blocking the internet. - mdelling, on 07/10/2009, -1/+3I've had the same experience... their view of American politics is interesting, because the "good" American presidents are the ones that went easy on China, and the "bad" ones were the ones that continually tried to get China to reform, drop censorship, stop committing human rights violations etc. They refuse to believe that anything their government tells them could possibly be wrong, and believe that the whole rest of the world has it in for them somehow... Now I just don't start those conversations, because by the end of them, my head just hurts.
- prausa, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2So wait if people in china read cnn and digg they will revolt so you have to block simple news stations. Maybe your doing something wrong China... ever think about that. I mean i don't want to be the guy to call anyone out but yea.
- powertruth, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2you stupid child!
- Sil369, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2why dont they just ban everything technology
- SabreWolf, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Exaggeration much?
- Sil369, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2cant they use proxies?
- Sil369, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2i see small trees
- dtele, on 07/10/2009, -2/+4FTA : "Digg has not been available to confirm or deny whether any submissions are making it into the system from China..."
I will wait for an answer from Digg before I make a conclusion on the accuracy of this post - Jamnajar, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Is anyone REALLY surprised?
- Enlefo, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Reason not to move to China #473.
- RiperSnifle, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1screw IAMRaven.
- Darksoul, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1God you posted that twice?. You still can't see the humor in your statement?.....
- gbhall, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Ubiquity ftw!
- Suricou, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Yes, but they always grow bored after a week and look for a shiny new plaything to torment.
- omefrans, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I love China! (I mean it!)
- Wrangler76, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Uh, that's what I meant. A lot of ignorant Americans think they protested peacefully, I don't.
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