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Tested From: Beijing, China
Tested At: 2010-04-01
21:37:50 (GMT -04:00)
URL Tested: www.abovetopsecret.com...
Resolved As: 75.126.76.151
Status: OK
Response Time: 2.641 sec
DNS: 0.191 sec
Connect: 0.244 sec
Redirect: 0.000 sec
First Byte: 0.246 sec
Last Byte: 1.959 sec
Size: 59567 bytes
Tested From: Beijing, China
Tested At: 2010-04-01
21:47:16 (GMT -04:00)
URL Tested: www.infowars.com...
Resolved As: 208.111.148.6
Status: couldn't connect to host
Response Time: 1.790 sec
DNS: 1.790 sec
Connect: 0.000 sec
Redirect: 0.000 sec
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Originally posted by Gools
Well if that is not conclusive proof that ATS is a CIA cointelpro operation implemented by the powers that be I don't know what is!
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Originally posted by yiersan
BBC is not blocked in China,
and infowars is NOT blocked in China,
neither are most other conspiracy websites like Camelot ATS etc, probably because these conspiracy websites are not as important and significant as the members and readers tend to think.
Although Youtube and the like are blocked, you will be surprised how few websites outside China are blocked.
Time
Technology known as "the Great Firewall" blocks web sites on an array of sensitive topics (democracy, for instance), while tens of thousands of government monitors and citizen volunteers regularly sweep through blogs, chat forums, and even e-mail to ensure nothing challenges the country's self-styled "harmonious society." Together this massive network of Internet nannying is imperiously called "the Golden Shield Project." Thousands of websites (many porn-related) are blocked outright, and destinations such as YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia are heavily restricted. Web users in Internet cafes — where the vast majority of Chinese go online — must supply personal information in order to sign on
what are the most blocked categories of websites? Sexual and pornographic sites. Hurray.
then comes all the websites from Taiwan and HK based forums.
Harvard University Law Dept (cyber) Empirical Analysis of Chinese Internet Blocking
Once so connected, the authors attempted to access approximately two hundred thousand web sites. The authors tracked 19,032 web sites that were inaccessible from China on multiple occasions while remaining accessible from the United States. Such sites contained information about news, politics, health, commerce, and entertainment. See highlights of blocked pages. The authors conclude (1) that the Chinese government maintains an active interest in preventing users from viewing certain web content, both sexually explicit and non-sexually explicit; (2) that it has managed to configure overlapping nationwide systems to effectively -- if at times irregularly -- block such content from users who do not regularly seek to circumvent such blocking; and (3) that such blocking systems are becoming more refined even as they are likely more labor- and technology-intensive to maintain than cruder predecessors.
NetWorkWorld
At a purely technical level, it makes it harder to reverse-engineer the firewall's filters. One day, you can reach all pages at the BBC. The next day they're blocked. If you're trying to game out the system, you're stymied. And at a social level, it makes it hard for people to be sure that they're ever operating in a truly safe zone, since the rules of enforcement might shift tomorrow.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
That would indicate the Chinese totalitarian state does not see any content, discussions on ATS as threatening, even though it is the largests such site in the world, but they do so for most MSM outlets.
Elf.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
reply to post by yiersan
It must be frustrating for our fellow Chinese Atsers to not be able to access the links on some of the threads.
[edit on 2-4-2010 by MischeviousElf]