Thanks to the all-seeing eyes of JOHO, this item sets out how those tricky little geekettes and geeks in China get around, or work around, the Chinese government’s active efforts to control interaction on the Web.
He cites an article titled “The blog revolution sweeps across China”, forwarded to JOHO by Scott Feldstein.
“Bo ke” is a Chinese neologism for “blogger.” New Scientist has a fascinating article by Xiao Qiang about the growth and importance of blogs in the Middle Kingdom. Snippet:
Blogs play an important role in republishing and spreading information as quickly as it is banned from official websites. One example of this played out in September when ChinaÂ’s most influential bulletin board, Yitahutu, was closed down by the net police…
After the closure, all the major university bulletin boards were instructed to delete any discussion of the event. Even the name of the site was censored from Chinese search engines.
But the net police found it much harder to purge discussion of Yitahutu’s closure in the blogosphere. Bloggers are quick to find euphemisms so that they can continue conversation despite keyword filtering…
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