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As a Chinese whom know a lot of real dark side of this country, I must say this report is just a joke. There may be 10 or 20 cases in the whole China for a decade, but exaggerating to that level is just a joke. Maybe people want to see this kind of story.
If all the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time, why would they lose their lawsuit?
Those machines will soon be assembled or copycatted in China.
:-) looking forward to meeting your guys later
Yes, after I registered, I did some search, and start to feel anxious because no comments found anywhere......until I saw this one:)
Google Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)
Perl style regular expression support is a big thing! I use notepad++ a lot, but the search has always reminded me of vim.
Yes, you suggest a way that may detect blocks. According to the researcher's website, he is using the search function of weibo to check which words are blocked, that is smart. It seems that weibo are using program and hiring people to do the censorship. There even are rumors saying that those censorship department are settled in WuHan city, and has a team of more than 500 people. Anyway, his research is valuable, and it helps bringing more sunshine to the weibo land.
As a weibo user, sometimes I delete message because typo, or it may hurt my friends' feeling.
When you see other people's message got deleted, you have no way to know whether it is deleted by the user himself or censored (at least not until just a few weeks ago).
I am not defending Chinese gov here. But I am curious how can those researchers figure out whom has deleted the message?
I suppose this idea has been stated in Jared Diamond's 1997 book "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies"