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ISYS100 Tutorial 4
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China: Fang Binxing’s holiday greetings spurned
Fang Binxing is the principal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, but he is best known for building China’s Internet censorship infrastructure dubbed “The Great Firewall”.
And when he posted his Chinese New Year greetings to social networks over the weekend, tens of thousands of netizens, exasperated with government control over the web, bombarded him with messages telling him to “go to hell”. The Beijing regime blocks access to a number of the world’s most popular sites, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and uses a keyword system to filter content deemed sensitive.
It’s a nightmare for Chinese web users who have to try and skirt restrictions in order to freely browse the web, and many hold Fang Binxing responsible. They have nothing but contempt for him and he is regularly targeted by anti-censorship activists.
In 2011 for example, he was hit in the face when a student threw a shoe at him during a meeting at a university in central China. The act of protest made the student an online hero.
And more recently, a petition was started on the White House petitioning site calling for the architects of China’s Great Firewall to be denied entry to the US. The document has gathered 12,000 signatures so far, but remains far off the 100,000 required for Washington to officially consider the request.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130212-internet-online-reactions-pope-benedict-xvi-resignation
Iceland Poised to Block Online Porn
By Bob Johnson, XBIZ.com
Wed, Feb 13 2013 07:15am PST http://newswire.xbiz.com/view.php?id=159442
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland is on the verge of becoming the first Western democracy to block online porn.
Sparked by concerns over the damaging effects of adult material on women and children, the proposed censorship would broaden Iceland’s laws that already ban the...