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When I read the comment about how "it was an honor" to be banned by the GFWoC, this poem cam to mind. "When the regime ordered Books with dangerous knowledge T
by Jun8 17y ago
When I read the comment about how "it was an honor" to be banned by the GFWoC, this poem cam to mind.
"When the regime ordered
Books with dangerous knowledge
To be burned in public and everywhere
Oxen were forced to pull, carts with books
to the bonfires, one of the persecuted poets
discovered one of the best
studying the list of the burned
disconcerted, that his books were forgotten.
He rushed to his desk, flying on wings of rage
and wrote a letter to the the authorities.
Burn me! he wrote with a quick stroke
Burn me! don't do this to me! Do not spare me!
Have I not always reported the truth in my books?
Yet now you treat me as were I a liar!
I command you: Burn me! "
OTOH, this means that Dropbox has obviously gotten big enough to be a threat to the authorities.
- seattle 17y agoChinese government ban sites for the information on it what might threat the stability of the country, it has nothing to do with a company big enough or not. Tons of innocent sites are banned because they are hosted on the same IP address that also hosted some anti-China sites. This event means nothing to Dropbox, it only means someone was using Dropbox to pass through information that is not considered legal in China.
- liuliu 17y agoThink it in this way: in this age, good IT companies make profit/benefit from promoting free-flow of information (e.g. Google, Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia). The Chinese gov is trying to ban the unconstrained flow of information (the whole idea of free-flow of information is considered harmful to the current regime). Thus, the website is banned by Chinese gov must be particularly good at promoting the flow of information, which makes them good candidates of successful IT companies.
- lutorm 17y agoI'm curious though, since Dropbox isn't really a way of communicating. I guess someone could have published the url to something in their "public" folder.
- wizard_2 17y agoDropbox uses https for all of its communication, which makes it a non monitored form of communication. A lot of people use dropbox for sharing files and folders for organizing events. You could also share videos and documents about banned information.
- bmelton 17y agoSo poignant a comment, I wish that I could do more than upvote. Regards.