17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Rich Graves wrote:
In Hong Kong, the Internet wasn't quite strangled, but the British authorities who control that colony managed to throttle free electronic speech with the rest of the world until everything was bottlenecked into a few little-known satellite links.
Hmm, few specifics here. I wonder if they would care to elaborate. Nah.
Don't waste your time with that idiot, he doesn't know what he's talking about. The 1-week partial black-out here in Hong Kong happened because some providers had ignored some licencing requirements, and has been quickly solved once they agreed to comply.