“The Connection Has Been Reset”
February 20th, 2008 by Greg
Interesting article by James Fallows about internet censorship (including how it will be reversed temporarily at a few select locations during the olympics for a few weeks). Takes me back to when I was writing about this at University.
"In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of China’s electronic control but its new refinement—and a special Potemkin-style unfettered access that will be set up just for them, and just for the length of their stay. According to engineers I have spoken with at two tech organizations in China, the government bodies in charge of censoring the Internet have told them to get ready to unblock access from a list of specific Internet Protocol (IP) addresses—certain Internet cafés, access jacks in hotel rooms and conference centers where foreigners are expected to work or stay during the Olympic Games."View the rest of the article here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall
