OT, Chinese sites to purge 'unhealthy' content 4141

The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 26 April 2006 16:00

I posted this to the search engines newsgroup this morning. It's worrisome. Would you believe that China blocked the WordPress (Open Source blogging platform) Codex, which merely provides technical docomentation in the form of a Wiki?

There were those who say that Christians created the Net (not Al Gore) for religious Christian stuff and all else should be excluded. Or something to that effect. Scary stuff, FWIW:

HTMLTidy is an excellent and compact tool. it'll get many link with the anchor text that warrants its high position for that search phrase. It's the Swiss army knife for automated reorganisation of sloppily or ill-built Web pages.

AT&T developing Web anonymity, anti-censorship tool

Since this is an O-S-inclined group, let's just mention Windows Vista, which offers blockers for Web sites. This equips users with a handle on parental control. Whether this tool phones home or can serve Microsoft's agenda (e.g. block 'unhealthy' information, according to Microsoft), who knows? It's all conspiracies. Google has thus far been the main gateway to information. With Microsoft.com at number 1 (sponsored) spot for 'linux' and today's pro-Firefox campaign, it's nothing to sneeze at.

Yes. Boys will be boys. Within a few years, they will ponder what O-S was used to engineer that can of Pepsi (or shall I say COLA?).

What a sick little bastard! *smile* Do you know how much water would cost nowadays?

Best wishes,

Roy

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