[p2p-research] internet blackout in Urumqi

[Tomas Rawlings]

The irony is that in my daily digest, I have the interesting discussion 
about how China blocks open internet access and then the P2PNVE call for 
papers on p2p and Internet technology 15th International Conference on 
Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2009), Shenzhen, China.  ;)

I was at a very interesting event on Monday looking at the political use 
of technology ( http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/690632 which 
referenced Michel Bauwens's work, I believe there will video) - what was 
interesting was the discussion after, where China came up.  I speculated 
that the project to insert the Green Dam software in every PC 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort) is a tacit 
admission that the great firewall is not working, hence the need for a 
2nd layer of filtering?

-- 
Tomas

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