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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Why does Sina Weibo not get blocked?
People are exposing scandals involving government officials all the time so why is Weibo allowed to carry on, but facebook remains blocked after all these years?
12 years 26 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
I've heard that Weibo blogs get taken down all the time, depending on how sensitive and scathing the material is, but as far as not being blocked, it originates inside of China. Facebook is a "foriegn" site, and is blocked because people could meet and plot against the national government here. Double standard? Yep, but such is the nature of the web. Here are some links for other sites blocked (note: it changes all the time):
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/China-highlights.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
One of the reasons cited for the eventual downfall of the Soviet Union (and there were many) was because of the rise of the internet and the accessability of information. Of course, Soviet Russia was a completely different animal than China.
China, in many respects, has learned to adapt to changing global parameters in regards to information flow, but is still well behind the curve inso far as creative thought and open-market critiques are concerned.
rasklnik:
The internet had NOTHING to do with the fall of the soviet union. The soviet union fell in 1990. The main factors for the fall of the soviet union were the war in Afghanistan, the economic crisis, the leadership of Gorbichev and the fact people were aware of the better standard of living in the free west.
Because Sina Weibo lets the government snoops creep around freely. Other sites don't.
They are working on it. You'll notice state media loves to run stories where an innocent person became the victim of rampant rumours. First demonize it, then shuit it down.