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From the article: "Among the most popular filtering software programs is SmartFilter by Secure Computing in California, which was bought by McAfee in 2008. SmartFilter has been used by Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iran, and Oman, as well as the US and the UK.[63] Myanmar and Yemen have used filtering software from Websense. The Canadian-made commercial filter Netsweeper[64] is used in Qatar, the UAE, and Yemen.[11]
In a U.S. lawsuit filed in May 2011, Cisco Systems is accused of helping China build a firewall, known widely as the Golden Shield, to censor the Internet and keep tabs on dissidents. Cisco said it had made nothing special for China. Cisco is also accused of aiding the Chinese government in monitoring and apprehending members of the banned Falun Gong group.[65]"
Censorship is not software that one writes and markets. It's much more complex than that.
And the leader of internet censorship is none other than China.
Censorship is not software that one writes and markets. It's much more complex than that.
And the leader of internet censorship is none other than China.
Thanks for the post. I don't know exactly what is needed to censor the internet, much less how it's done.
I wanted to know what companies engaged to provide ways to censor the internet. I never went beyong page one in the google search. I'm sure the companies are smart enough to avoid ways of being exposed.
You'll find a lot of stories. China got google to filter for them in China until google got called on it.
Social networking is what they will be going after next as that is the medium for all these uprisings across the world.
Inside Google's China misfortune - Fortune Tech
Google had hoped that its decision to create a search engine in the .cn domain -- one that followed government rules of censorship -- would lead to a level playing field. But even as Google rolled out its .cn web address, there were indications that its compromise would not satisfy the Chinese government. Unexplained outages still occurred. (Meanwhile, Google's competitor Baidu seemed to hum along unscathed.) And not long after Google got its operating license, in December 2005, the Chinese declared that the license was no longer valid, charging that it wasn't clear whether Google's activities made it an Internet service or a news portal. (Foreigners could not operate the latter.) Google then began a year-and-a-half-long negotiation to restore the license.
Here's another tidbit since your interest in this is piqued.
Room 641A
The government hasn't denied it's existence and has been dragging this in the courts since 2007. If there's one room 641A you can bet there are hundreds more.
This has been in the news for years. Why are you just thinking about it now? It's been a big struggle for Google in particular in countries like China.
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