Give some examples of censorship in China.  What are your thoughts and feelings?
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Research into the mainland Chinese Internet censorship has shown that blocked websites include:\nNews from many foreign sources, especially websites which include forums. BBC News, Hong Kong News sources are heavily censored.\nWebsites, news and information about \nTibetan independence\nFalun Gong\nDalai Lama (Restricted)\nTaiwan and Taiwan independence\nTiananmen Square protests of 1989\nHuman rights, freedom of speech, democracy\nHong Kong. Yahoo Hong Kong is blocked.\nPornography\nReligious websites, The official website of the Catholic Church is blocked.\nSites critical of top Chinese leaders or those expressing views different from the Chinese government\nOverseas Chinese websites\nTechnical sites\nWikimedia: Wikimedia sites, including Wikipedia, have recently been blocked for the third time. See Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China.\nSourceForge: SourceForge was blocked in 2002. The blocking was released in 2003, but as of January 2006, it may have been blocked again.\nFreeBSD.org: FreeBSD.org was banned since December 2005. \nPHP.net: PHP.net was banned by China Telecom (southern China) according to some users. Free Internet services\ngeocities\nzoneedit (free DNS service, one of the servers blocked)\nblogspot (however, blogger.com is not blocked)\n\nI don't agree with it and it shows how fragile is the communist state. Anyone who things is an enemy of the state because he will eventually find out how erroneous the communist ideology is.
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In order for Yahoo! (or any other company) to do business with the Chinese, they must comply with the government demands. This usually means that they supress any sort of information that is out of line with the Chinese government. Companies like Google and Yahoo are willing to comply with these requirements because if they don't, another company will simply come along and do it. These corporations aren't willing to pass up the big bucks in an emerging market like China's, so they are willing to censor its users. I live in China and there are many websites I cannot use. "Dangerous" words like "freedom" and "Tibet" and "human rights" do not return any results on search engines here in China. \n\nIn short, there was money to be made by Yahoo. And they took it.
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its just plain 'ol censorship\nnothing you can do about it
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Because China is an oppressive communist country. They sensore everything their people see, they don't want any individuality or new ideas. China is a country that forces the people to believe what they want them to believe.
347008
Absoultely nothing. If parents are afraid their children are being exposed to something questionable, then the parents should make a point of supervising their children whenever possible. It might not be a perfect plan, but it's better than censorship.
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http://www.sanonofre.com/censorship.html\nhttp://daveproxy.co.uk/\nhttp://www.proxyring.com/topsites/
290905
You should go to china , Once upon a time (about 20 years ago),China government implemented a social movement against criminal activities called "yangda" ----burglary,rape,robbery,bribery etc...anything could sentence to immediate execution by gun-shot (relatives paid for bullets fee, How miserly the government is!!!)
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It surely violates democratic principles. China, however, is not a democracy.\n\nGoogle's business model coincides with the government that the business works in - for example, the US version of google is unrestricted... Why? Because of our freedom. \n\nChina doesn't have similar freedom. What Google is doing in China would be illegal here - what Google is doing here is equally illegal in China.
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First, if these sites are censored, it might be a bad idea to proxy around those censorships.  Otherwise, you can try a proxy bypass site, in which you enter the web address, and the proxy site goes around the censorship somehow.  Try http://www.unipeak.com/
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LEARN FROM THIS, IDIOTS!!!\n\nYou abuse your freedoms, lie about the government and laugh about abuses.\n\nPlease notice that this is not allowed around the world.\n\nStill think it's funny when someone has his rights trampled upon?\n\nFor Yahoo to do business in China, they have to make compromises.  CHINA IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY.\n\nThose are the rules.  Would it be better to have no Internet in China?  Sometimes you have to compromise.
559939
Having alot of trouble understanding why alot of Americans are dieing for your right to be censored?... hmm.. very interesting.
310523
I know that they don't treat them very well in China. Have you ever watched anything about the tank man of China (Frontline) from PBS. He stood in front of a parade of tanks, and just told them to stop. Nobody knows today who he was, or wont say because he disappeared into the crowds. Beijing started to have the student riots to change the government shortly after this incident.
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Censorship doesn't make much sense. The word "Jew" for a long time was not allowed in an online Scrabble game. Now they allow it. Does that make sense?\nSince four letter words are not allowed on some sites, some people type f-u-c-k, and the words go through. Does that make sense?\nPeople that use a 4-letter word in every sentence are boring, but how can words hurt us, as the old saying suggests?\nP.S. When I reread what I have just said, I must admit that some words do hurt, especially if they are true, but I don't think that justifies censorship which is subjecting us to another's sensitivities.
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well they are a communist nation, and censorship is what communists do. impure communism is corrupt and the ruling group still feels it needs to crush dissent. if the chinese government allowed uncesored blogs and search engines, the people would organize and overthrow the communist regime. china is just trying to hold to to what will soon be an extinct form of government.
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I've been to a few protests before and I agree many of the people have no clue. \n\nWhen I lived in Florida, I actually attended a protest(as a protester ) at a theme park called "Splendid China" which was owned by the Communist Chinese Government-although through several subsidiaries to hide that fact.\n\nSo there were always protests there- you had conservatives there protesting a Communist government owning a business in America. You had human rights advocates because there were rumours that Chinese workers who would ask guests for a way to emigrate out of China would be sent home to China and jailed. You had the Pro-Tibet crowd-because Tibet shouldn't be part of China, etc. So you would have people protesting for all kinds of different reasons. Or none. I asked a few people why they were there (adults now, not kids) and they would say things like "China is bad" or "Because it's the right thing to do."\n\nI'll be honest- I was there because a girl who I had the hots for invited me. Some of the causes I felt strongly about- but proving to the girl that her causes were my causes was my main  reason.\n\nSo I think you get people at protests who either have no clue, have some sort of social motive(like me), or just like to protest.
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Okay that was rude. But censorship sucks too, and where would they draw the line? I don't think they have time to check out every single thing we write on here anyway. You have to be pretty tough to play here sometimes. Just ignore rude people and be happy about the nice respectful ones who don't act that way. Or if someone says something really bad report them.
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It is evil, I still appreciate the services yahoo provides to me, but to censor anyone in search of freedom, and give in to an oppressive government (such as china's), or any government "request", is simply wrong, and proves that though there are still a few good minds, and good souls behind yahoo, the cooperation is sadly, slowly being claimed by evil, censorship, and anti-freedom "forces"... I think what is happening to yahoo, and what it is doing in China, are both very sad... if any of you good yahoo people read this, please stop the oppressive forces within your otherwise good company, before it is too late...