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Blakenzy

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Internet censorship
« on: September 01, 2012, 07:25:26 PM »
Internet word filtering in China, and how people try to get around it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEKl3sKGhJ4

At 3:10 you can see what presumably is "the internet police"-powered by Lenovo. We laugh at such notions, make good fun of it (see internet meme "you dun goofed"), but we shouldn't forget it can happen. Hell, it does happen. Keep on your tippy toes.

P.S. Should it happen to us we might have to reconsider the "no nicknames for politicians" rule to continue posting  ;)
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both"