41% of Chinese Websites Shut Down In 2010 203
BinaryMage found a pretty shocking bit- apparently the Chinese government has shut down 1.3 million websites in 2010, an incredible 41% of all sites behind the great firewall. The usual reasons (pornography) are cited, as well as the reminder that China blocks Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from its citizens. Anyone behind the firewall know if Slashdot is currently blocked? I've heard it varies.
Re:Chine (Score:5, Funny)
Wikipedia says it's the French name for China. The Grammar Nazi in me was saddened to hear that.
Not really, the French have a history of accomodating Nazis.
Re:Pr0nography?? (Score:5, Funny)
In a more enlightened atheist society this would never happen!
Only according to a typically immoral, decadent liberal.
In a socialist society, both men and women will have respectable employment and not turn to work in pornography to make a living. The reification of private intimacy to marketed commodity is the very height of alienation; on the other hand, it still exists outside the market as a homemade expression of individualist nihilism, the consistent self-indulgent stamp of the culture industry that has appropriated and homogenized everything in its contact. Sex is replaced with watching sex. Social bonds break down as partners become as interchangeable as the URL in the browser. It is the another illegitimacy in the wake of Enlightenment subjective rationality: that only the method by which free speech is achieved may be debated, while the objective remains as a dictator.
Not to suggest that China has much communist credibility remaining these days...
Re:To answer your question (Score:4, Funny)
Porn (Score:3, Funny)
Almost think that the takeaway from this article is that 41% of websites in china are porn,
Re:Quick experiment for you /.ers currently in Chi (Score:2, Funny)