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Great Firewall of China Enables Digital Piracy – Part I
Houston, Texas was home to a tenement project known as “The Village”. Located in one of the roughest areas of town, it was surrounded by a concrete fence topped off with barbed wire and only one way in or out. Guarding the entry to The Village was gun toting security personnel.
To many this seemed ideal; a show of force to keep out the bad elements, but of course this was untrue.
In reality, the armed guards allegedly worked for the drug dealers running The Village and their job was to regulate all illicit activity within the compound. They were more like a “mafia militia” as opposed to a conventional security force.
Rather than protect the people within the borders or The Village, the role of the security guards was to oversee the rampant drug sales for the dealers who lorded over the complex.
The Village was a self-contained entity which made and enforced its own rules while hiding in plain sight. To me nothing can better illustrate China’s Great Firewall (GFW) or Internet censorship technology.
Beijing claims that Internet protection and the Great Firewall Read more…
Source: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2013/07/great-firewall-of-china-enables-digital-piracy-part-i/
