Tor partially blocked in China
January 26th, 2010 by Lance Cottrell
Tor partially blocked in China | The Tor Blog
That last article lead me to this post on the TOR blog from September 15, 2009 (I am a bit late to this party). China is now blocking about 80% of the public TOR nodes.
This mostly ends a rather baffling situation where for some reason the Chinese were failing to block TOR even though it was being used effectively for censorship circumvention, the list of nodes is publicly available, and they are no more difficult to block than any other server.
- Lance Cottrell
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March 16th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I’m glad China is starting to loosen some of their restrictions on the internet. Now more websites are accessible.
March 18th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Actually, the article is saying that they are tightening controls, not loosening. They just don’t have 100% coverage on the censorship yet.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
The blog should have been clear to anyone in what was written: “{China was} failing to block TOR even though it was being used effectively for censorship circumvention…China is now blocking about 80% of the public TOR nodes.”
Nothing will change China’s lack of human rights anytime soon, so don’t get your hopes up by anything your read or hear (you have to do some searching for the behind the scenes truths. The common workers have always been slaves and continue to live in what amounts to our idea of half a small hallway. They make slave wages and any/all trade agreements allow American companies to take advantage of that fact, which they ALL know about (one of the worst offenders is WAL*MART, family owned, all the families {brothers and sisters} are billionaires, and they don’t care much for their own employee’s, either! Grade-A, blue-blooded, fine, upstanding Patriots of the U.S.A. But many other companies fall right in line with them, although no other company I’m aware of, but WAL*MART, also causes large-scale job losses, business closings and such whenever\wherever they open new super-stores. Some cities have finally begun thinking and have blocked their stores from opening, so they simply move on to another city.)
But blame this on what the U.S.A has become…a military, political, industrial complex - and President Dwight Eisenhower, a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, said in his final nationwide speech (at the end of his 8-yr term), that forewarned the people of our great country about allowing it to become exactly what it now is. He wrote that farewell speech himself and had originally written “…a military, industrial, political complex…,” but his advisers thought “political” could cause ruffled feathers between party members on both sides, so he removed the reference and its filtered warning about not allowing this country to become, a “…military, industrial complex…” was what he said. The Republican Agenda put its plans into motion as soon as it could, taking ~25 years to become anchored in place and slowly progressing as if it had AI. I believe the first signs were when a few different large corporations decided to farm out jobs to countries with similar attitudes towards their citizens as China. And on, and on…never ending, UNLESS the citizens of the U.S.A come out of their shell of apathy and begin making educated decisions and noise about how The U.S.A. was NEVER founded to become such a complex. Although there are NO true democratic voting methods in the U.S.A. and the perpetuated, totally out-dated and harmful method used, known as The Electoral College (neither a bonafide College, or school or ties to either or the educational system in any fashion!). Technology has totally eradicated any true, useful need for handling voter counting b. We deserve the right, a Constitutional right/directive that make each single registered voter’s vote count! What a novel idea! One vote, one count! Majority wins by by the already determined percentage, depending upon the voting type.
All done…a bit lengthy…my apologies!