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too long

I find this page too long, I was looking for some information about chinese economy and i surprisingly find out that this page on "censorship in China" is quite as long as the page on its economic information or military information...it's quite sad that so many people put their interest in adding info on this page about politics and controversal facts than other pages... 15:37 3 january 2009 (CET)

Google don't like censorship...

... and Google will not censor its search engine. Even Google is considering pulling out of China: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html --201.223.80.197 (talk) 03:40, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is also the USA Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing on this: http://cecc.gov/pages/hearings/2010/20100324/ --—Zujine|talk 15:19, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving

Does anyone object to me setting up automatic archiving for this page using MiszaBot? Unless otherwise agreed, I would set it to archive threads that have been inactive for 30 days and keep ten threads.--Oneiros (talk) 17:07, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done--Oneiros (talk) 16:50, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

the first regulation was issued on 1996, not 1993

Qiu's paper made a mistake that the first internet regulation, known as Interim Provisions Governing Management of Computer Information Networks in The People’s Republic of China Connecting to The International Network, was passed by the 42nd Standing Convention of the State Council on January 23rd, 1996. In 1993, there was no internet access in China. The first line was established by Sprint and China Telecom in 1994 and the internet public service was open to society on January, 1995. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.182.237.115 (talk) 07:43, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tool for checking which websites are blocked

You can use http://www.greatfirewall.biz to verify whether a certain website is currently blocked in mainland China.

Will somebody please reconcile the second sentence with the first and the third?

"Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. There are no specific laws or regulations which the censorship follows. In accordance with these laws, more than sixty Internet regulations have been made by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.125.49.20 (talk) 03:59, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Allegations against Cisco

Reuters reported this week that a lawsuit has been filed in a California federal court alleging that "Cisco and its executives designed and implemented [the Golden Shield] surveillance system for the Chinese Communist Party, knowing it would be used to root out members of the Falun Gong religion and subject them to detention, forced labor and torture." Apparently the suit further alleges that some 5,000 Falun Gong followers have been wrongfully imprisoned, tortured, or killed with the help of technology provided by Cisco. This seems quite notable, but I'm wondering where it might best belong on this page. Thoughts? Homunculus (duihua) 04:33, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

oh, the irony

http://www.greatfirewall.biz/url/55335

well, thats not ironic really, but just funny.