Adding bricks to the Great Firewall of China

Looks like Chinese authorities feel compelled to further regulate the nation’s blogs, chat rooms and search engines.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on June 30, 2006 at 9:24 am, filed under China, East and Central Asia. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Sonagi your flag
    Posted June 30, 2006 at 9:40 am | Permalink

    Instead of cute blue-eyed Jingjing and Chacha (”jingcha” = kyungchal/police), a more appropriate symbol would be the Net Nanny, a 50-ish, heavyset battle axe in a black polyester pantsuit, short permed hair, and a stern look on her face.

  2. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted June 30, 2006 at 10:14 am | Permalink

    . . . Two virtual cops, a man and a woman with cartoon identities, have begun to patrol the cyber beat in Guangzhou City to catch the bad guys and to check pornography, prostitution, sedition, drug dealing and all the other menaces of modern society.

    . . .

    Lui353>Hi, I am new here and was wanting to know if I could buy drugs in this chatroom?

    Rei_obah>R U 4 reel??

    Lui353>I am not joking. I want to get high to forget about where I live.

    Rei_obah>in china!?

    Lui353>No, in cybercafe.

    Xi007>I might know someone who can sell. R U interested?

    Lui353>Yes, I want drugs.

    chacha001>Stop right there. This is the police. Put your hands in the air and do not move. We will be there in five minutes.

    Lui353>!!!! Busted by the man.

    chacha001>No I am Woman.

    Lui353>suxxorz!!!

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