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from the what-about-the-ones-you-did-NOT-catch? dept.
Chinese authorities have detained a software developer for selling computer services that allow internet users to evade China's "Great Firewall," which blocks access to thousands of websites, from Facebook to Twitter to some news outlets, a media report said Monday.
The software developer, who is from the coastal province of Jiangsu, near Shanghai, was arrested in late August and held for three days for building a small business to sell virtual private networks, the Global Times newspaper reported, citing the official Xinhua news agency. VPNs create encrypted links between computers and allow Chinese web users to see blocked sites by hiding the address from government filters.
Subscribers paid 10 yuan, or about $1.50, for one month of the developer's service. Authorities also seized the developer's earnings, which totaled 1,080 yuan, or about $165.
Some internet businessmen have faced far harsher punishments: Earlier this year, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who sold VPN services in Dongguan, near Hong Kong, was sentenced to nine months in prison.
How far away from having this happen in the West are we, really?
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 19 2017, @08:21PM
Bollocks. Filtering is *only* censorship if you are *in control of the medium*. Noone controls the media within which academic journals operate - if you don't like the filtering that reviewers and editors perform in your field of study you are free to find or found an alternative journal.
Note that I'm not saying science is a bed of roses,far from it, it's rife with corruption because there's too much money dependence, but groupthink is not censorship; if anything, it's an opportunity to have a voice that really stands out from the crowd, at least if you're demonstrably more right (i.e. less wrong) than the others.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves