February 22nd, 2008
Business - Written Friday, February 22, 2008 by Danny Williamson - 4 Comments
Firewall Hurdling : 2008 Olympic Demonstration Sport
In a post by Don earlier this month, he wondered if China would ever bring down its firewall. In the post, he speculates that the coming Olympic Games would only make the crackdown worse. Well it looks like he may have been right and wrong according to this piece in the National Post yesterday.
The article says China will open up very limited parts of the “Great Firewall” in order to give visiting foreigners unrestricted access to the internet for the duration of the games. They’re able to do this because the Chinese Internet censorship system is precise enough that it can filter (or not) searches from specific IP addresses as well parts or all of any webpage – the Chinese are hoping to medal in this discipline in 2008.


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