Re: Some thoughts on the Chinese Net
At 12:31 2/15/96, Jon Lasser wrote:
How would packets coming into the country be marked / passed on?
Presumably, you'd need a Chinese-approved identity key in order to get packets into the country.
So it seems that, in general, the Chinese supression of the net is possible. A frightening thought. Or, if you think about potential implications 10 yrs down the road here, a sobering thought.
Hold on.. Assuming we really believe the net is a good thing, if the Chinese block it, they're hurting themselves. We don't need to get bent out of shape. They could as easily refuse to connect to the rest of the world. The more they repress their population, the more their population will want to rise up in protest -- maybe not this millenium but probably in the next. All we have to be sure of is that we don't let the Chinese dictate to us what content we can provide. It's like the CDA. The Chinese might choose to implement a nation-wide SurfWatch at all connection points at its borders. ...their problem, IMHO.... +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Carl M. Ellison cme@cybercash.com http://www.clark.net/pub/cme | |CyberCash, Inc., Suite 430 http://www.cybercash.com/ | |2100 Reston Parkway PGP 2.6.2: 61E2DE7FCB9D7984E9C8048BA63221A2 | |Reston, VA 22091 Tel: (703) 620-4200 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Carl Ellison wrote:
At 12:31 2/15/96, Jon Lasser wrote:
So it seems that, in general, the Chinese supression of the net is possible. A frightening thought. Or, if you think about potential implications 10 yrs down the road here, a sobering thought.
Hold on..
Assuming we really believe the net is a good thing, if the Chinese block it, they're hurting themselves. We don't need to get bent out of shape. They could as easily refuse to connect to the rest of the world. [...] All we have to be sure of is that we don't let the Chinese dictate to us what content we can provide. It's like the CDA. The Chinese might choose to implement a nation-wide SurfWatch at all connection points at its borders.
...their problem, IMHO....
Not if it's just a proof-of-concept for US implementation of the same. The US version might be ostensibly only "anti-indecency" or "anti-cryptography," but I'm betting that if the Chinese are successful, many other nations follow. It's the naval blockade to JPB's Independant Cyberspace. And I think JPB is... a little overoptimistic this time... but I still don't like the blockade. Jon ---------- Jon Lasser (410)494-3072 - Obscenity is a crutch for jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu inarticulate motherfuckers. http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ Finger for PGP key (1024/EC001E4D) - Fuck the CDA.
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