So it's 6 AM and I haven't slept...gotta love jetlag, feels like it's still early in the evening.
Which brings me to the point, what the heck are those dudes in China thinking!? It's like this, the internet in China is
severely sensored to the point where BBC, Geocities, and Blogspot are blocked. Now, I can see the reason behind Geocities being blocked (Taiwan, Democracy, yaddayaddayadda) but BBC?? Note that stuff like Washington Post (And Daily Kos) is unblocked? WTF!?
Here's what I don't get, don't they realize they're not blocking anybody worth blocking? Hell, any random idiot (like me) can figure out how to hop the firewall using the Google Translator. Who are they blocking? People who don't care enough about the issue to hop a firewall that's just filled with holes. Who aren't they blocking? Anybody radical enough to be dangerous is at least smart enough to hop that firewall. Hell, they could teach a chimp to do it. What's the point? I mean, they're practically
inviting every other country in the world to yell at them for Human Rights Violations. What are they afraid of? Are they seriously concerned about a bunch of college students overthrowing a stable government? Yeah right. That's not even a remote possibility...If they want to firewall things off, do it right. Otherwise, there's no point at all.
I figure, they're just too damned stupid.
