More Great Firewall

[klonk]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/16/asia/17china.php (From the Hairy Trib)

HONG KONG: The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Web sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games in China in August, Internet experts said on Tuesday.

Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at his semi-weekly news conference on Tuesday in Beijing that the Chinese government had a right to censor Web sites that violate the country's laws. He added that "some Web sites," which he did not identify, had violated China's law against secession by suggesting that there are two Chinas — a reference to the Beijing government's longstanding position that mainland China and Taiwan form a single China.

[klonk]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081220/D956H5N02.html

Dec 20, 10:40 AM (ET)
BEIJING (AP) - China has blocked access to the New York Times Web site, the newspaper said Saturday, days after the central government defended its right to censor online content it deems illegal. [...]

I'm no fan of the Old Grey Liar myself, but really... the NY TImes is subversive?

[Michael]

They've blocked quite a lot in the past week. Real pain in the ass! Anyway, it's part of a world-wide trend. Australia is starting a nationwide firewall and the free web we now know is under attack from the gubmints of all the major countries. It's looking grim as most analysts are predicting an end to the free Internet in the next two years. Everything will have to be registered and govt approved. Pick your bogus reason: terrorists, child porn, "dangerous" information about natural health, etc. It all just means more and more control from the overlords. No offense intended to member, "Overlord",