[Clave]

Actually the USA is lagging behind Sweden and Hong Kong in internet use:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm

[vyper]

*reminds other posters who exactly implemented IPv9 before anyone else... *points to china**

[Styxx]

Originally posted by vyper
*reminds other posters who exactly implemented IPv9 before anyone else... *points to china**

China loves making up their own standards which are just ripoffs of western standards. Like the EVD, for example. The next generation protocol/addressing scheme will be IPv6, no matter how much China screams and whines that their own version is better.

[redmenace]

Originally posted by ngtm1r
They're just upset we're shutting down their kiddie porn sites.

...actually, that probably is the reason.

Actually China is very strict about child porn sites IIRC.

[Rictor]

Yeah, I didn't even bother to reply to that one. In any case, how exactly would the US have power to shut down Chinese websites is beyond me...

[Clave]

I wonder how much fear there is in the Chinese govt hierarchy?  When a few hundred million ordinary people get online with no censorship, then I predict revolution...

[Windrunner]

Originally posted by Rictor
Yeah, I didn't even bother to reply to that one. In any case, how exactly would the US have power to shut down Chinese websites is beyond me...

an allout war between american and chinese hackers maybe

[karajorma]

Originally posted by redmenace

Actually China is very strict about child porn sites IIRC.

Actually China is very strict about any porn. It's Russia that's lax about Child Porn.

[Annorax]

Originally posted by karajorma


Actually China is very strict about any porn. It's Russia that's lax about Child Porn.

They're very strict about just about everything... but then again, what would you expect from a country that has fleets of vans converted to rolling courtrooms, complete with execution gurneys?

[Gank]

Concentration camps on islands off the coast maybe? Where people are imprisioned indefinitly without being charged with anything? At least China uses courts.

[Annorax]

Originally posted by Gank
Concentration camps on islands off the coast maybe? Where people are imprisioned indefinitly without being charged with anything? At least China uses kangaroo courts.

Fixed.

[NGTM-1R]

Originally posted by redmenace

Actually China is very strict about child porn sites IIRC.

...then perhaps you'd care to explain why the FBI finds that child-porn sites are most often hosted on servers located in China? And that China has a tendancy to be uncooperative in shutting them down?

I grant my evidence is somewhat anecdotal: it comes from someone I know who works as a techie for the FBI. Still, he would have experience on the subject.

[Rictor]

erm, what would the FBI be doing investigating foreign porn sites? Isn't their jurisdiction resitricted to the US?

aside from that, I don't think the experiences of your friend are enough to make any sort of authoritative statement on the issue.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by ngtm1r


...then perhaps you'd care to explain why the FBI finds that child-porn sites are most often hosted on servers located in China? And that China has a tendancy to be uncooperative in shutting them down?

I grant my evidence is somewhat anecdotal: it comes from someone I know who works as a techie for the FBI. Still, he would have experience on the subject.

Albeit, aren't the majority of the people running those servers American? (including the side crime of Spam)

The Chinese clamp down hard, I think, on porn in their own country but don't give a **** about the rest of the world.

[redmenace]

Originally posted by ngtm1r


...then perhaps you'd care to explain why the FBI finds that child-porn sites are most often hosted on servers located in China? And that China has a tendancy to be uncooperative in shutting them down?

I grant my evidence is somewhat anecdotal: it comes from someone I know who works as a techie for the FBI. Still, he would have experience on the subject.

They do investigate all child porn sites. They close down the ones in the US and press charges. But say if a porn sight is located in the UK. And the site displays children under 16 then the FBI will notify their British counterparts. The same is the way for China. However, the Chinese don't like to cooperate with the US gov't  in general. They wish to piss off any way they can. I am not saying we are righteous, I am just say they like to act uncooperative since they see us as an enemy of the People Republic of China since we support a independant Tiawan.