China blocks Canadian site
p2pnet.net News:- Canada’s Trudeau Foundation awards scholarships for issues such as human rights and social justice and wanted to use its web site to reach people in China.
No one seemed interested, though.
Foundation staff decided to check into the situation and discovered the site "had been blocked on all computers in China for many months, apparently because it contained references to rights and democracy," says a Globe & Mail story here.
Websters in China reported they weren’t able to get access and the foundation got an independent technical analysis from a US-based company specializing in Internet censorship in China.
"Its analysis verified that the site had been blocked," says the report.
Ironically, Trudeau was one of China’s earliest friends in the West. "As prime minister in 1970, he decided to give diplomatic recognition to Communist China, putting Canada among the first Western countries to recognize the Beijing authorities," says the Globe & Mail, adding:
"So far, the Chinese embassy in Ottawa has made no response to the letter from the Trudeau Foundation. As of this week, however, the site seemed to be accessible in China, but it was unclear whether that was in response to the foundation’s complaint."
March 26th, 2004 at 8:42 pm
Trudeau is rumoured to have been an early pioneer and promoter of p2p sharing. His first sharing network the NEP (national energy program ended in disaster unfortunately), he then went back to just sharing our tax dollars with everyone else.