Re: China starts to get serious over cyberspace

Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:11:37 +0100
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On Friday 19 June 2009 07:44:34 Alan Grimes wrote:
> I had wanted a freenode for a long long time.
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> Then I finally got a place of my own.
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> So I set up my node on my athlon 800..
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> and it just sat there.
> and collected data,
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> and then I tried to do some browsing,
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> and performance was always horrible.

How much bandwidth did it have? How much memory?
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> And I left it running for a few weeks...
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> Finally, I decided I needed the bandwidth for something useful. =3D\
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> Freenet is a great concept, I just wish it worked. =3D(
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> Luke771 wrote:
> > Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
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> >>> <snip>
> >>>    =20
> >> After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several=
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> >> security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and=20
> >> Information Technology has clarified that "The use of this software is=
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> >> not compulsory". Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution.
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>  =20
> > in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has=
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> > been for a relatively long time in australia.
> > my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their=20
> > constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too.
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> > I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new=20
> > censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after th=
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> > new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have=
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> > relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in=20
> > the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship...
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> > also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number,  after=
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> > the introduction of some new fascist laws   with a couple of italian=20
> > indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from a=
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> > 'alternative' politician (yeah, right)
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> > the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws =3D more=20
> > freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make=20
> > them bring their friends (offering interesting content?)

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