So the CDC has found something it can get behind to show up on the radar of the populace again. Since you don’t know who the CDC is you can find their stuff over at cultdeadcow.com. It’s very self congratulatory. No one is prouder of the CDC than.. well.. the CDC.
Now, not to say there aren’t some decent hacker groups out there. But they don’t care about you. Really. Not only don’t they do press release, overall, they’ve faded into total obscurity and appear to like it that way. See “Information Retrieval Guild” or IRG for a good example.
Anyway, what’s gotten them up in a lathery furor this time ’round? Nothing less than search engines and governments sensoring the internet. Kinda like they do here in the states, only in China. And if you’re going to object to the “doing it here in the states” comment, please look into the deteriorating affect of the .gov’s War on Porn ™ before sounding off.
Round these parts we just force servers off-line and congratulate ourselves on how we’re saving society from (er…) nudity?
So the boys over at the CDC are kicking up something fierce about censorship, presumable as some kind of publicity turnover. I’m guessing they might even release that privacy application.. years late.. that I last heard about in 2001 or so.
Favorite quote?
bring sunshine to the dark alley where free-market collaborators make money helping unelected authoritarian regimes control their citizens.”
Like.. ya know.. France or the USA. If you’re going by that bar, anyway. And yea, I think they’ve got bigger issues in rural China than finding their daily porn fix. Sorry guys, but I’ll take a stand on human rights issues over there before the internet censoring.
In conclusion. While I think that China has a horrible human rights record, I don’t see censoring dissent or blocking objectionable material to be outside the norm for countries, however objectionable it may be to me in particular.
