A must read essay by the great Bruce Schneier on CNN.com: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google
“ it’s bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. ”
A must read essay by the great Bruce Schneier on CNN.com: U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google
“ When reading the survey results from the government official websites, you always feel why I am always at the opposite side of the public opinion, even feel like I am a post 90s generation, why I am always not mainstream. ”
我只是在猜想 by Han Han (韩寒), translated by ChinaHush: I am just exploring. 15 Jan 2010
Some students contend that even after Google pulls out, Internet space will continue to shrink. Until now, Google has shielded Baidu by manning the front line in the censorship battle, said a 20-year-old computer science major at Tsinghua. “Without Google, Baidu will be very easy to manipulate,” he said. “I don’t want to see this trend.”
Here some comments from an unblocked discussion on douban.com about Han Han’s (韩寒)《我只是在猜想》- “I am just speculating”. Just to get an idea. I find it quite unusual to see that people really seem to be worried about him:
刚刚去看博客里没有了~
I just looked, it’s not on his blog anymore~
http://mirror.mlkz.cn/redirect.php?tid=259183&goto=lastpost
这个暂时还可以
This one is still working for now.
不久韩寒也成了敏感词
It won’t take long and Han Han is a sensitive word, too.
感谢韩寒！希望他不会被迫屈服！
Many thanks to Han Han! I hope he won’t be forced to surrender!
总有一天，韩寒会突然消失的。
There’s bound to be a day when Han Han will suddenly disappear.
真担心他有一天会消失
I’m really worried he will disappear one day.
以前不稀罕这人 现在觉得 小孩挺有意思 韩寒 你知道的太多鸟～～
Before, I didn’t care about this person, now I think, pretty interesting boy, you know too much
牺牲了一个产业，换来了国家的稳定，值。
Sacrifice one industry to keep the country stable, that’s worth it.
太不和谐了
Too disharmonious!
韩寒同学要穿防弹衣了
(Classmate) Han Han needs bulletproof clothing now.
很担心 hanhan 同学，被车huo了，它们可是啥都干得出来的
I’m very worried (classmate) Han Han will have a traffic accident, they are capable of just anything
哥 要保重啊!
Mate, you must take care of yourself!
“ 韩寒涉嫌泄露国家未来的顶级绝密战略。
Han Han suspected of being involved in divulging top secret national future strategy. ”
Ai Weiwei (艾未未) today morning on Twitter recommending the latest blogpost by Han Han (韩寒): 《我只是在猜想》- “I am just speculating”
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2010 August: The government discovers that the red five-pointed stars are the same color as the background, so that it is hard to find them. Representatives of elementary school students propose the five-pointed stars be changed into green color, to represent green scarves and Green Dam
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Thanks a lot to Roland Soong for the translation!
In China, the original is (among others) still accessible via http://tinyurl.com/ybhn82g right now, 17 Jan, 21:30.
now this link, 18 Jan, 01:02
“ 韩寒这篇文字证明他已经完全成为一位令中国人自豪的异议作家了，喜欢他这种毫无保留。 ”
“With this piece, Han Han has proved that he has completely become a dissident writer that the Chinese people will take pride in, I like his way of holding nothing back. .”
Michael Anti on Twitter about the latest blogpost by Han Han (韩寒). 17 Jan 2010. Ai Weiwei (艾未未) answered “That one is OK, the rest of them can go die.”
The link posted on Twitter has already been harmonized.
Han Han (韩寒) published a hilarious blogpost titled 《我只是在猜想》(“I’m just guessing”) about censorship today morning. It has been already deleted from his Sina Blog. (The link now redirects to the interesting url http://control.blog.sina.com.cn/myblog/htmlsource/blog_nopower.php?blogid=4701280b0100gmcy. )
It’s still accessible via www.bullogger.com/blogs/twocold/, which is hosted in the US.
And it’s spreading. Ten minutes ago, a search for “我只是在猜想” 韩寒” delivered 527 results on Baidu, 2.420 on google.cn (plus the hint, that the result is filtered), 4.990 on google.com. Many of the reposts are being closed down, too.
I hope, Han Han’s post will be translated soon. It gives an outlook on the development of China until the end of the world in 2020, including events like the Chinese flag changing to green stars on red ground, hunger strike of the 50 cent party, computers having no keyboards anymore, Web 0.3 and much more, all for the protection of the child.
I’d really like to translate it, but my Chinese is still too limited for some of the subtle parts.
In a January 14 story, Sichuan’s Huaxi Metropolis Daily reported the case of a mobile user in Dongguan who found that his mobile phone could no longer send or receive instant messages. Hoping to resolve the problem, he changed out his SIM card, but there was still no service. Finally, when he approached China Mobile about the issue, he was told his service had been suspended because of an “indecent text message” (黄段子) he had sent out after receiving it from a friend. The mobile user was told, according to Huaxi Metropolis Daily, that he would have to present his identification card to local police and fill out a letter of guarantee that he would no longer send indecent messages — only then would his SMS service be restored.
China Media Project » Will China’s censorship mandate extend to dirty talk?
Han Han (韩寒) wrote about this on 15 Jan 2010: 我只是在探索 (in Chinese). Thanks to ChinaHush for the translation: Han Han: I am just exploring
“ China has become a very curious case. As Liu noted to me, “We are included in globalization, an American-led concept, and we have benefited immensely.” Yet Beijing resists the very openness on which it depends. Openness for China is a means to an end — prosperity and development — but not a value. ”
