Hundreds of sites down for "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day"

http://www.danwei.org/net_nanny_follies/chinese_websites_under_mainten.php

by sho • 17 years ago

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jhancock3• 17 years ago

I kind of like the idea of a "global internet maintenance day". Sysadmins get to do patches, upgrades, and backups with the sites offline. Sweet.

icey2• 17 years ago

Except in this case it's being used to gloss over any coverage of the anniversary of a horrific event.

jhancock3• 17 years ago

yeah well, yes, no, sort of...this view of it being a cover-up of a horrific event is not exactly how the majority of Chinese view it IMHO. The Chinese certainly know why the Internet sites are down. The general population are not ignorant of this history.

Do you consider the U.S. Civil War a horrific event? Certainly lots of people suffered; it was a war. But lots of change occurred (still occurring).

I don't consider June 4th in China "as only" a slaughter of innocents. History might show it to be one of the least bloody events relative to the significant change that happened as a result. 2009 China is far different from 1989 in part because this event happened.

Please do not be upset with me for my opinions. My view has come after a very long time of me holding my U.S. views while living in China and coming to understand that most local Chinese do not agree with me.

embeddedradical• 17 years ago

"starting with the Tıаnanmen anniversary", and it's renewal kind of behavior. is this a clever way of protesting without getting sent to prison?

sp332• 17 years ago

Unfortunately, no. It's to prevent people from talking about the event on its anniversary, and to prevent Chinese people from hearing other people talk about it.

sho3• 17 years ago

And it's also a veiled warning: "Don't even think about it". Read the comments below, though, for some discussion on the nuance in the situation, and why it's not really a subject anyone should be getting too outraged about before they understand the environment in which it's happening.

vaksel• 17 years ago

doesn't the whole banning thing give more exposure to it?

est3• 17 years ago

The funny thing is we don't call a "Maintenance Day", we call it a "Been Maintenance'd Day"

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22%E8%A2%AB%E7%BB%...

Just like there are two kind of suicides in China, suicide and 'been suicided'.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%E8%A2%AB%E8%87%AA%...

rms• 17 years ago

Do you think this US media talk about apathy and ignorance about June 4th among the Post-80's generation is meaningful? Do most Chinese youth really not know what happened? How many anniversaries do you think it will take before they stop maintaining the internet?

est3• 17 years ago

> Do you think this US media talk about apathy and ignorance about June 4th among the Post-80's generation is meaningful?

Yes to you, maybe no to us. Because it's not really some fresh ideas, since 'western' media is full of these things everyday.

> Do most Chinese youth really not know what happened?

on some degree. We all know some shit happened to China, East-Europe, Russia in the late 80's & early 90's. some of us probably do not know the tankman though.

Hundreds of sites down for "Chinese Internet Maintenance Day"

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