Dan wrote:
You can't easily watch western english language channels in China? How awful! Perhaps we should invade.
You're right about censorship being an issue in China, but the internet side of things is easy to circumvent with proxies. It would be an absolute disaster for China to allow freedom of the press at this crucial stage in its development. Oddly enough, what with the rampant, unchecked capitalism and in the ansence of the rule of law, China is in some ways a more free society than most developed countries (with obvious political exceptions, of course.)
P.S. China is not odd, and claiming that it is says more about you than it does about China.
Everyone seems to have forgotten about china.
Ive been there and its kind of odd. They have a realy big bloody proxy server! (the great firewall of china!) you cant get BBC, CNN etc. unless you check into a really posh hotel (with direct sat access i guess) not an everyday thing to do on a backpackers budge!
Ive been there and its kind of odd. They have a realy big bloody proxy server! (the great firewall of china!) you cant get BBC, CNN etc. unless you check into a really posh hotel (with direct sat access i guess) not an everyday thing to do on a backpackers budge!
You can't easily watch western english language channels in China? How awful! Perhaps we should invade.
You're right about censorship being an issue in China, but the internet side of things is easy to circumvent with proxies. It would be an absolute disaster for China to allow freedom of the press at this crucial stage in its development. Oddly enough, what with the rampant, unchecked capitalism and in the ansence of the rule of law, China is in some ways a more free society than most developed countries (with obvious political exceptions, of course.)
P.S. China is not odd, and claiming that it is says more about you than it does about China.