Thursday, September 02, 2004

internet - The censor filters are beating themselves

The recent uproar after China Digital News disclosed the list of banned words at the internet is having an interesting side-effect. Metanoiac complaints that after putting the whole list online, it was only with great difficulty the website could be downloaded.
According to my estimation that is because this information drives the censor filters crazy, especially since a few more websites and weblogs might have put up this information to inform their readers.
This could easily cause the filters to get overworked and might even slow down the overall internet traffic. In that way the system will always be beating itself: whenever the economic fallout grows, filters will habe to back down. Well, you do not have to be particular clever to develop a strategy to increase the pressure on the filters.
(More tomorrow at my "Thoughts on Friday morning")

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