China blacks out Foursquare in yet another blow to freedom on the internet. techblog86 reports:
Foursquare. Dead to China beginning in the afternoon hours of June 4, 2010. (Confirmed here in Beijing.) You’ll have to reroute to get in…
I’d think a major player in the world economy, like China, could implement methods [other than censorship] for harnessing their citizens’ data. Methods that could balance the country’s national security while allowing it’s people unfettered access to the web.
The amount of data that could be garnered by the Chinese government is potentially enormous.
If China really wanted a thorough snapshot on each of their citizens, don’t you think they’d collect more data rather than restrict it.
Over the past decades a lot has been changed, from the first colour TV to mobile phones, and from the internet to mind control devices. Of course, not everything has changed, especially the news papers sticking to their old traditions.
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