Comments on: What’s your Freedom/China Ratio? http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:01:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike Linksvayer » Wikileaks flows http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-97421 Mike Linksvayer » Wikileaks flows Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:08:29 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-97421 [...] course Wikileaks is blocked in China, which gives them some cred in my opinion (but note the measurement described in that post doesn’t seem to work anymore — from [...] [...] course Wikileaks is blocked in China, which gives them some cred in my opinion (but note the measurement described in that post doesn’t seem to work anymore — from [...]

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4532 Mike Linksvayer Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:00:47 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4532 Carl, I mean x/0, i.e., all of my are deemed worthy of filtering by google.cn's masters. Carl, I mean x/0, i.e., all of my are deemed worthy of filtering by google.cn’s masters.

]]> By: Carl Brutananadilewski http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4525 Carl Brutananadilewski Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:11:45 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4525 You said to give you ∞ (x/0)...don't you mean 1 (x/x)? You said to give you ∞ (x/0)…don’t you mean 1 (x/x)?

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer » Boing Boing promotes supply-side anti-censorship http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4445 Mike Linksvayer » Boing Boing promotes supply-side anti-censorship Tue, 28 Feb 2006 00:46:07 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4445 [...] Not the context I imagined, but Boing Boing is calling for supply side anti-censorship: What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users? What happens when SmartFilter blocks so much content that the web is crippled for its users? [...] [...] Not the context I imagined, but Boing Boing is calling for supply side anti-censorship: What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users? What happens when SmartFilter blocks so much content that the web is crippled for its users? [...]

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer » Supply-side anti-censorship http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4361 Mike Linksvayer » Supply-side anti-censorship Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:53:50 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4361 [...] An alternative, perhaps less sexy because it involves no technology adoption, is supply-side anti-censorship: make verboten information ubiquitous. Anyone upset about google.cn should publish information the Communist Party wants censored (my example is pathetic, need to work on that). This is of course not mutually exclusive with continuing to carp and dream of techno-liberation. [...] [...] An alternative, perhaps less sexy because it involves no technology adoption, is supply-side anti-censorship: make verboten information ubiquitous. Anyone upset about google.cn should publish information the Communist Party wants censored (my example is pathetic, need to work on that). This is of course not mutually exclusive with continuing to carp and dream of techno-liberation. [...]

]]> By: laurence http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4350 laurence Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:40:33 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4350 Ah...sorry, Mike! I was using google.com.cn. But this is a point to bear in mind - Users can use any of these servers so are free to see as many estimated hits as they wish. I suspect you're right that .cn doesn't show as many inaccessible hits, but in my experience wikipedia is completely blocked. Ah…sorry, Mike! I was using google.com.cn. But this is a point to bear in mind - Users can use any of these servers so are free to see as many estimated hits as they wish.

I suspect you’re right that .cn doesn’t show as many inaccessible hits, but in my experience wikipedia is completely blocked.

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4348 Mike Linksvayer Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:23:00 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4348 laurence, were you using google.com or .cn? I suspect you were using .com and that .cn doesn't show many of the pages in results that aren't accessible anyway. laurence, were you using google.com or .cn? I suspect you were using .com and that .cn doesn’t show many of the pages in results that aren’t accessible anyway.

]]> By: laurence http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4347 laurence Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:03:50 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4347 Just tried this out in Canton and got the same results as you for site:wikipedia.org - 156,000,000. The main difference of note is that the pages aren't accessible here! Just tried this out in Canton and got the same results as you for site:wikipedia.org - 156,000,000. The main difference of note is that the pages aren’t accessible here!

]]> By: Ivan Minic http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4265 Ivan Minic Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:00:44 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4265 Sad to see how much people in China are loosing... Sad to see how much people in China are loosing…

]]> By: Mike Linksvayer » @:^# http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4188 Mike Linksvayer » @:^# Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:18:42 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/01/26/freedom-china-ratio/#comment-4188 [...] Why “support” free speech when you can engage in it? There may be no other issue where direct action is so easy, so do it! [...] [...] Why “support” free speech when you can engage in it? There may be no other issue where direct action is so easy, so do it! [...]

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