Joining Apple, Amazon's China Cloud Service Bows To Censors (nytimes.com) 51
Days after Apple yanked anti-censorship tools off its app store in China, another major American technology company is moving to implement the country's tough restrictions on online content. From a report: A Chinese company that operates Amazon's cloud-computing and online services business there said on Tuesday that it told local customers to cease using any software that would allow Chinese to circumvent the country's extensive system of internet blocks (Editor's note: the link could be paywalled; alternative source). The company, called Beijing Sinnet Technology and operator of the American company's Amazon Web Services operations in China, sent one round of emails to customers on Friday and another on Monday. "If users don't comply with the guidance, the offered services and their websites can be shut down," said a woman surnamed Wang who answered a Sinnet service hotline. "We the operators also check routinely if any of our users use these softwares or store illegal content." Ms. Wang said the letter was sent according to recent guidance from China's Ministry of Public Security and the country's telecom regulator. Amazon did not respond to emails and phone calls requesting comment. The emails are the latest sign of a widening push by China's government to block access to software that gets over the Great Firewall -- the nickname for the sophisticated internet filters that China uses to stop its people from gaining access to Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as foreign news media outlets.
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No way dude, you're on your own. I told you I'm not touching that stuff.
Didn't see that coming... (Score:1)
Is there a particular reason any of us should be surprised by this? China has been the way it is for longer than most of us have been alive, and looks to be that way for many more.
Sad state of affairs (Score:1)
Money and power is more important than freedom and liberty to these people.
Re: Sad state of affairs (Score:1)
If democracy dies we all lose.
And By "Illegal Content" She Means... (Score:2)
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Re: Joining Apple? (Score:2)
Google left China. They are in HK, but they are uncensored there. China blocks Google, not the other way around.
They DID censor in China. Then China broke in and read emails from dissidents. Google left. China has blocked all Google services since, pretty much.
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That connecting from within China will be followed to the server outside China so the use of a VPN will be detected.
The user will be discovered and what VPN service thy used will be detected.
A US company will have to accept and support the rule of law in China for that brand access.
China will evolve a totally different technology (Score:2)
While I lived in China, I used a my own private VPN to access Google for technology searches. Baidu may be good for searching the latest pop song in Chinese, but useless for technology searches. Right now I am programming in Vue, a very popular web
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I know you think this is the problem, but the chinese officials want that isolation. It will force you to use chinese tools and frameworks that ARE documented locally.
And then their homogenization will make them horribly, pathetically vulnerable to attacks. Sounds fine to me, I guess.
Not a Law (Score:2)
Business as usual (Score:2)
NyTimes (Score:2)
It's a NY Times article. Has an actual reputable news organization checked the sources?
Censors in the East, Propagandas in the West (Score:1)