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> Skrevet av  Carolyn Duffy Marsan
> 12.05.2008 kl 14:43 | IDG News Service
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> Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look
>
> James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has
> experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience
> people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics
> comes to that country. Based in Beijing, Fallows has researched the
> underlying technology that the Chinese use for Internet censorship,
> and he explained it in a recent article titled "The Connection Has
> Been Reset." We e-mailed Fallows questions about how the Chinese
> government controls Internet content available to its citizens, and
> here's what he had to say.
>
> James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has
> experienced "The Great Firewall of China" firsthand, an experience ...

> Hence governemnt cutting down some inappropriate
> information is doing the citizens a service.

> The real limiting factor in one's access to information is not the
> government.
> But the person himself.

> His ignorance, biases, laziness
> and etc. For example, many westerners who criticize China are in fact
> quite ignorant about China. No one is blocking them to learn as much
> as possible about China or Tiebt. But they choose not to.

>http://news.idg.no/pcw/art.cfm?id=DDA63441-17A4-0F78-31848A6D00AA0B5E
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>Skrevet av Carolyn Duffy Marsan
>12.05.2008 kl 14:43 | IDG News Service
>
>Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look

> There is already so much information out in the Internet that an
> ordinary person can use. What the Firewall does not block is more than
> enough to satisfy anybody's need for information on any subject.

> James Fallows said:
> If you work from a Chinese Internet cafe -- which is still where the
> vast majority of Chinese Internet activity happens, since so few
> people have connected computers in their own homes -- you experience
> all of these blocking mechanisms as a matter of course. In some
> places, like schools, the blocking can be much cruder and indiscriminate.

>
> The real limiting factor in one's access to information is not the
> government. But the person himself. His ignorance, biases, laziness and etc.
> For example, many westerners who criticize China are in fact quite ignorant
> about China. No one is blocking them to learn as much as possible about China

> or Tiebt. But they choose not to.

> What these westerners don't get is mainland Chinese are not looking for dirt
> on their country's leaders. Most don't read English anyway. So that Firewall

> is not noticed let alone resented.

> What the Firewall does not block is more than enough to satisfy anybody's
> need for information on any subject.

>
> Truth will always triumph. No amount of Firewall blocking and no amount of
> propoganda spin can fool the people.