Internet: November 2006 Archives

The Epoch Times
November 15, 2006

Internet blockade breakthrough software is popular

By Wu Xue'er
Epoch Times Bangkok Staff

On November 3, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Thailand approved Mr. Jia Jia temporary refugee status.

In a recent interview, Mr Jia Jia, former general secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Association of Scientists and Technology Experts currently residing in Thailand temporarily, said that it is popular amongst the Mainland public to get internet breakthrough software to understand the outside world.

Many Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are considering the problem of the CCP's collapse; many of them have escaped, transferred assets and sent children overseas to study abroad beforehand, etc.

He said that he listened the Voice of America and read news on the Epoch Times website regularly when he was in China. These independent media had a great influence on him.

Software Breaking Through Internet Blockade Popular

Jia Jia said: "I have always liked to listen to the Voice of America, but reception was poor because of the interference. Often it was quite unclear. More than three years ago, I went to a network company to find a better receiver, the store clerk recommended that I use an Internet breakthrough software—Free Gate."

"People are willing to pay for the high price because it enables them to see information from The Epoch Times and many other media that are blocked by the CCP. They are eager to see and hear about these information. Because true information cannot be seen or heard under the reign of the CCP."

Basically the computer industry in mainland China is made up of young people. Transactions in Internet breakthrough software are risky. Once caught by the CCP, the fine is in the magnitude of thousands or licenses revoked. Jia said that he learned from a senior staff of a computer company that the demand for such software is increasing.

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times
November 8, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Internet enemies list numbers 13: Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

These are the countries singled out by the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders as the worst culprits for systematic online censorship, and they were targeted in the group's 24-hour online protest ending at 5 a.m. Wednesday.

''No one should ever be prevented from posting news online or writing a blog,'' said the Paris-based group, Reporters Sans Frontieres in French, which taps more than 100 journalists who are ''keeping us informed.''

Worldwide, 61 people, 52 in China, are in prison for posting what the countries claimed was ''subversive'' content, the reporters' group said in its annual report.

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