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Re:Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Int... by venomsnake on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @02:31AM (#10456596)
It is different - US is chasing monetarily goals mostly and NSA want to read everything. Chinese are trying to prevent thought crimes and political discourse.

Although there are few isolated cases where DMCA was abused to stifle discourse, they are far and between.

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Re:Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Int... by neolefty on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:20AM (#10457335)
I think it's also partly monetary in China. For example, Baidu is thrilled that Google is blocked.
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Re:Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Int... by 70seconds on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @02:38AM (#10456620)
> "Want to read everything"?

How is NSA wanting to read everything (if they don't already) any different from Chinese authorities reading everything?

Different my foot.

Looking at the quality of discussion here it seems we're living in that dumbfuck's paradise. For they say: when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

There is little difference in intent, monetary pursuit, lust of power, size of investment and scale of techniques used by either centre of powers. For exactly the same purpose.

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Re:Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Int... by rsanders on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @07:50AM (#10457408)
The Chinese authorities are preventing their citizens from reading things they find counter to their aims. You don't have to create this false equivalence to find both actions undesirable.
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