I have some questions for Chinese and China-based bloggers out there. (Please forgive my rusty Chinese… I'm much better at reading than writing, I'm afraid.)
The extent of China's web filtering is often dismissed in the West as not such a big deal because people can use proxies to get around the blockages. People seem to have different opinions about how widespread the knowledge of proxies actually is in China. If you're in China right now or have been spending a lot of time there recently I'd like to know what you think about the following questions:
在国外经常有人说，因为有代理，中国有很多网站上不了没有太大关：真想看这些网站的人总有办法。不同的人对这个问题有不同的看法, 所以我想问中国的 blogger 几个问题:
- Of the people in China who use the internet regularly, what percentage do you think know how to use proxies? Of the people you know, what percentage know how to use proxies? 在中国经常上网的人当中，你估计百分之多少知道怎么用代理？亲自身边的人当中，你估计百分之多少会用代理？
- Out of that group of people, what percentage do you think frequently use proxies to access blocked sites? 会用代理的人当中， 你估计有百分之多少经常用代理上被封的网站？
- In other words, among the proxy-savvy Chinese internet users, to what extent does it matter if things are blocked or not? How much does filtering impact these people's information experience on the internet? 换句话问：在会用代理的中国网民当中，一些网站被封不封有多大的关系？中国政 府封一堆网站对中国 网民的“网上经验” 有多大的影响？
- More generally, amongst all internet users in China at large, how do you think internet blocking and filtering impacts what Chinese internet users do and do not know about their own country and about the world at large? 总的来说，在中国国内访问不了很多网站的情况之下，你觉得这个情况怎么影响 到中国网民对自己的国家和国外的理解？
It would be great to know your views. If you want to answer this on your own blog, please post the link in the comments section here if the trackback doesn't show up automatically. I would especially love to know what the Chinese bloggers think about this question. 麻烦blogger们在自己的 blog 上,或者在下面的“comments” 里面发表自己的意见!
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Have you thought about getting your brain tumor operated on? It really may help.
Well, in your case you couldn’t be any more moronic even if you get a frontal lobotomy.
To the numbskull above…learn to spell, oh superior one.
Wake up
Dude, put the crack pipe down, this is the 21st century.
CCP想封的网靠代理也无法访问，除非是加密代理。比如在google搜索freedom，马上就会断开，整个google都无法访问。虽然这些网站只要想上，就会有办法，但是只要CCP想不让你上，你就上不了。比如某个网站被封，用代理也上不了，我干脆SSH到我北美的服务器，然后通过我的服务器浏览，但是CCP完全可以把我的服务器也封掉。在比如我实在想看某个网页，自己的北美服务器也被封了，我干脆让国外的朋友把那个网页打包email给我，但CPP可以下令所有代附件的email都必须备案。等等。甚至有一天取消互联网，改用中华局域网（这名字起的不错吧），除非是企业需求，否则不准连入Internet，我想那时50%的中国网民不会受影响，最多是时尚的叫喊两天，就继续聊QQ打传奇去了。
As a Canadian from the East, I want to apologize for Wake Up and say that not all Canadians (and Quebecers) are such idiots who don’t know how to spell or think…
But he must have been addled by a combination of the Liberal government and the lies that are dily fed on the CBC…
“Justifying 3000 American lives lost in a plane accident the United States….”
An accident huh? You realize that people like you keep US Conservatives in power right? Keep it up!
WAKE UP is 100% correct about USA imperialism and McJobs war against Islam!
WAKE UP . . . yes please, continue to fight AmeriKKKans and the BusHitler.
WAKE UP, let it be known that Canada will occupy a privileged position in the worldwide sharia state that is the inevitable goal of the mass leftist/jihadist movement against neo-imperialism and neo-liberalism. Canadians will be excellent dhimmis, to provide wealth and women in the form of jizya to their true Muslim masters. Canadians, you will stop the production of your alcoholic beverages under sharia, but you will get your lives and your way of life so long as it does not contradict the teachings of Islam.
Canada’ multicultural system is an offense against Allah . . . but it will soon be gone as it is replaced by sharia.
I am willing to bet my soul that WAKE UP is a separatist, identity-seeking, inferiority complex-ridden, french kebeker.
Yeah. Right. Like I’m going to take political advice from someone who can’t read a dictionary.
Learn how to spell