Comments on: Should Wikipedia Be Censored in China?

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:45:02 +0000

I assume Maxthon gets around it by using some form or proxy, maybe rapidly changing the IP address so that it can avoid being blocked by government filters.

Anyway, I reckon if he isn’t succesful Wikipedia should censor itself in China. As Google said, better to give them access to some of the information than let the entire site be blocked. However the liberals, bandwagon jumpers, tabloids and general clueless idiots who don’t understand what’s going on would doubtless come down on them for it, spreading more dross like a plague cloud. In the same way that Google.com is still accessible uncensored from China (if one knows how to get round the filters), en.wikipedia.org would still be accessible, even if they made a censored version. The danger for Wikipedia isn’t from China, it’s from the rest of the world.

By: blaszta

blaszta — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:34:44 +0000

Ryan wrote:

I guess this is why the Maxthon browser is so popular in China…it gets around all of the censoring.

How come Maxthon get around it? Is this a built in feature? I never try Maxthon.. I’m a Firefox die-hard fans

By: DKong

DKong — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:09:45 +0000

But not in High Schools. I think they have tighter lockdowns on what sites you can access than China does….

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:44:44 +0000

I guess this is why the Maxthon browser is so popular in China…it gets around all of the censoring.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:17:50 +0000

Sometimes I forget we get it so good here in the US