Wednesday, December 31, 2014

I read an article online about the Great Firewall of China yesterday.

It seems that most of Google is now blocked there (Red China) with only about a fifth of the people being able to access it. This is really hurting business... er, well, at least it's irritating business people and making them cranky. Most of social media is forbidden too. China has its own thing (I can't recall the name) which it pushes people to use in lieu of Facebook and Twitter and China itself censors descent against the government at its own thing. The only social media still allowed is LinkedIn and in order for it to be acceptable it had to work out an arrangement with China wherein it self-censored some content on Tiananmen Square's history.

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