Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites

Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by cstejerean on Thursday October 18, 2007 @10:56AM (#69689)

I am dissapointed that TechCrunch is once again reporting stories without decent fact checking. The fact that some people in some parts of China couldnt access Google and Yahoo does not mean the chinese government is involved. Unless baidu was state owned there is little motivation for the to do something like this. Google has already agreed to implement filtering in China to please the Chinese government. This smells like Baidu or someone else in China was poisoning some DNS servers to get some attention.

Wake up people!

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by gibsonf1 on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:32AM (#69708)

Don't understimate the extent of Chinese Govt. anger over the Dalai Lama photo-op with Bush. The Chinese govt. effectively controls every company and person in China (if they want to), including Baidu. It would be fully unsurprising that they would shut down American search engines to "teach us a lesson" about not heeding their demands. It could, however, prove untrue as well - we'll see.

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by cstejerean on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:54AM (#69728)

It has proven untrue, several people have reported being able to access all of these sites (read the comments on TechCrunch). I haven't yet called my friends in China to confirm but I'm sure if this was indeed true they would have called me to let me know.

As far as how bad China really is, I recommend more people travel there and judge for themselves. It might be a communist government and they might oppose certain groups that pose a threat to them but saying that they control every company and every person is a bit extreme. There wouldn't be so many US companies setting up shop in China if they didn't trust the Chinese government.

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by rms on Thursday October 18, 2007 @12:33PM (#69759)

This anger about the Dalai Lama is just a bunch of posturing on their part, absolutely nothing will come of it.

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by rms on Thursday October 18, 2007 @08:32PM (#70045)

Well, looks like they are redirecting searches to Baidu, which is a very funny way of doing nothing.

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by h34t on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:52AM (#69725)

The Chinese government is always messing with the internet here. I can't even see photos in Flickr or articles in Wikipedia without using a proxy. They are unpredictable and annoying. Government involvement in this would not surprise me at all.

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Re:Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites by cstejerean on Thursday October 18, 2007 @11:56AM (#69730)

Indeed, Wikipedia managed to get banned in China. A bit annoying but nothing a tech savvy person can't figure out how to bypass.

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