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China: Censorship and Single Party Media Control
Personally I find this one of the most frustrating and unfair aspects of modern China.

By: Nathan Hazlett

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BEIJING Protests in Hong Kong may have dominated global headlines in the past week, but they stirred much less attention on the Chinese mainland, where government censorship has been particularly strict.

Even in Beijing, many people canvassed informally on Monday said they were not aware that protests were taking place in the southern territory. On a sunny public holiday in the Chinese capital, people thronged shopping malls, restaurants and cafes, while others made their way into and around the city at railway, bus and subway stations. About half of the five dozen people questioned professed no knowledge of or said they were not following events in Hong Kong, while most of the rest said their understanding of the situation was limited to state news media reports.

Guo Lin, a 20-year-old student at lunch with a friend in a KFC restaurant in the west of the city, said she was surprised how different the information she was receiving from friends through the Wechat social media platform was from that released on state-run China Central Television.

My friends who studied in Hong Kong told me how bad the government is there, but CCTV told me how irrational the protesters are I dont know who to believe, she said. I dont think the protesters are aggressive. I even envy them because they have freedom of speech.

Gauging public opinion is notoriously hard in China, where free speech on sensitive topics is extremely limited. But in conversations with a range of people in the capital Monday, there appeared to be little sympathy for the protesters main demand that Hong Kong be granted full democracy and a tendency to blame students, radicals or foreign governments for disrupting life there rather than the authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing for intransigence.

Equally, though, in a city that lived through the bloody quelling of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations, residents expressed a strong desire for dialogue and a peaceful, negotiated solution to end the stalemate.

There was also significant frustration with the Chinese governments blanket censorship of news media and social media coverage.

On Sunday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency ran a story stating that Chinese people from all walks of life have voiced their strong denouncement and opposition against the illegal gatherings of the Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong.

But public opinion in the capital appeared slightly more nuanced Monday. Backing the Chinese governments line, a few people said trouble had been stirred up by the U.S. government, while others blamed radicals from Hong Kong for selfishly disrupting peoples lives to further their own agenda.

A 34-year-old finance industry professional, Zhao Xiangang, said he thought the protests had been manipulated by foreign forces and were misguided. Unity is the only feasible choice for China and is in alliance with Chinese culture, he said. Democracy, in its nature, is in contrast with unity, which calls for some proper control and dictatorship.

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In Beijing, support for dialogue in Hong Kong but not democracy

The OpenTellus project is operated outside the reach of censorship authorities and allows people within these controlled areas to practice freedom of speech and to make up their own mind about what is right or wrong.

A prime example of internet censorship happening today is the ongoing online feud between Russia and Ukraine. Both countries are reporting their side of the story, and both countries are blocking content online in order to hide information from their citizens regarding the opposing side. The same thing is happening in Hong Kong today where China is blocking out the protests for its 1.2 billion citizens in mainland China. The OpenTellus project is operated outside the reach of these censorship authorities and allows people within these controlled areas to practice freedom of speech and to make up their own mind about what is right or wrong.

Mike Sjoblom, the leader of a team of experienced IT experts from the US, Europe, and Asia has discovered a new way for people to access the internet using a cloud solution. With a click of a link online, people gain access to the internet outside the local internet providers which eliminates the ability to censor or filter information on the web.

I couldnt have done it myself, this is a team effort, Mr. Sjoblom says, pointing out that with the sophisticated technologies today, governments around the world can chose what information they want their citizens to access or be kept ignorant about.

There are numerous examples where successful alterations of true online information have changed the outcome of elections, historical events, and general facts and figures to match a profile that is suitable for a private purpose.

Mr. Sjoblom says that the use of their code will enable anyone access to the Internet, from any place in the world, using any type of device, regardless of the operative system. A click on a link and the world is open. The innovative platform we intend to build will be available to any provider at any type of data center in the world. Once we setup the system for a provider, they may share their link with anyone they wish to have access to an unfiltered Internet environment. It will be one of those true game-changers in the world.

Users only need three things to gain access to the free and open Internet source:

1) a standard Internet connection, 2) a browser window and 3) a link to the platform from a provider in an uncensored internet zone.

The cloud will break all boundaries and take borderless internet to a borderless and free internet for the first time in history.

As Mr. Sjoblom says, a VM [virtual machine] is a computer that is available at a data center from anywhere in the world. The user accesses the VM online through a link. Our secret sauce is the discovery of how to open up a single VM to an unlimited number of users. VMs can only be accessed by one person at a time with todays technology and without our code.

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Eliminate Internet Censorship with the OpenTellus Code