It seems that if you are anyway affiliated with a government site, have been in some form of military service or just in general speak about anything the chinese government doesn't like. They will have your site banned from popular search engines in China. This is a known-known in the net community and is pretty much tolerated for the most part. That said, most of the information posted here is syndicated several places and there have been articles that I have written or published that would allow dissidents to have a voice. This includes ease dropping on fiber optic signals and other things that were at one point heavily linked from Chinese websites and forums. That and the proper way to race your vehicle in the event you planned to do it illegally on regular road ways. The last laced with warning after warning as why doing such a thing is stupid but nonetheless.
Let me preface that I have nothing against China as a country and never have but banning me from Baidu isn't going to stop your citizens from reading my site. So removing it from Baidu's index is not going to be effective enough. My site is syndicated to probably 4 or 5 different places; you'll have to ban all of those (which from the looks of it are fine) and considering I've barely said anything egregious it's just funny to me. I tried to re-add my links to the index and you went even further in removing nearly all links completely in the Baidu index. I'm not sure if this is because of the recent Google tiff or what and i'm not sure how many others you have done this to. In all sincereness, it doesn't even matter. Anyone who reads this site doesn't have to waste time searching baidu or trying to figure out how to punch through your firewall.
What really gets me is that if you are so right, if your ideas are so wholesome and virtuous. If you are doing what is right for China; why would you need a firewall? Wouldn't your values win out by their sheer existence? By the sheer simple truth of what you are saying? So I have a message for the Chinese government.
At the end of this day, this battle against information you seem to be waging will fail. Unless you wall off China from the internet completely... You will simply not win, it's just human nature to search for truth. Good luck.
That said, if you are a citizen, in whatever country you reside, with the freedom to search for truth you should probably not support search engines or internet companies who still operate in China.
Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.
China has banned this site.
It seems that if you are anyway affiliated with a government site, have been in some form of military service or just in general speak about anything the chinese government doesn't like. They will have your site banned from popular search engines in China. This is a known-known in the net community and is pretty much tolerated for the most part. That said, most of the information posted here is syndicated several places and there have been articles that I have written or published that would allow dissidents to have a voice. This includes ease dropping on fiber optic signals and other things that were at one point heavily linked from Chinese websites and forums. That and the proper way to race your vehicle in the event you planned to do it illegally on regular road ways. The last laced with warning after warning as why doing such a thing is stupid but nonetheless.
Let me preface that I have nothing against China as a country and never have but banning me from Baidu isn't going to stop your citizens from reading my site. So removing it from Baidu's index is not going to be effective enough. My site is syndicated to probably 4 or 5 different places; you'll have to ban all of those (which from the looks of it are fine) and considering I've barely said anything egregious it's just funny to me. I tried to re-add my links to the index and you went even further in removing nearly all links completely in the Baidu index. I'm not sure if this is because of the recent Google tiff or what and i'm not sure how many others you have done this to. In all sincereness, it doesn't even matter. Anyone who reads this site doesn't have to waste time searching baidu or trying to figure out how to punch through your firewall.
What really gets me is that if you are so right, if your ideas are so wholesome and virtuous. If you are doing what is right for China; why would you need a firewall? Wouldn't your values win out by their sheer existence? By the sheer simple truth of what you are saying? So I have a message for the Chinese government.
That said, if you are a citizen, in whatever country you reside, with the freedom to search for truth you should probably not support search engines or internet companies who still operate in China.
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Christopher Warner is part genius, part idiot. This makes him well balanced. He's worked on numerous opensource projects with great people and has generally led an eventful and fulfilling life. He hopes to retire an old man in a rocking chair should he be so fortunate.