Bad idea. If this comes West, Western governments are so clueless and compromised at this point that they will censor counter-jihad sites, not jihad ones. Can you imagine David Cameron angering his Islamic supremacist friends and allies by closing jihad sites? Not a chance. But the foes of jihad will be deep-sixed right away — an effort that will be aided and abetted by foes of the freedom of speech on the far Left.
“China says Internet censorship needed to fight terrorism,” Bloomberg, November 21, 2014:
BEIJING — China laid out its reasons for controlling online content at the first government-sponsored Internet conference, saying it is crucial to thwart terrorist attacks in the country.
“In recent years, the Internet has become the major channel for terrorists to organize and to incite violent attacks,” Gu Jianguo, director of the cyberspace security department of the Ministry of Public Security, said at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. It’s important to have a “safe” Internet, he said.
China is preparing its first anti-terrorism law after a series of attacks that authorities blame on Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang region. While the draft legislation includes measures to regulate terrorism-related information spread via the Internet and to tighten controls on dangerous materials, China also censors material critical of the government and blocks social media websites Facebook and Twitter.
China’s Internet industry, which government data project will grow to 850 million users in 2015, is a threat to national security and will grow worse as more people gain access, conference panelists said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a letter to the conference, wrote that the development of the Internet has brought “new challenges to national sovereignty, safety and interests,” and called for a global effort to build a peaceful and safe Internet space.
Vice Premier Ma Kai, in the opening ceremony, cited the president as having said the Internet could become a treasure vault or Pandora’s box depending on how it’s used. Managing it well “matters to international security and social stability,” he cited Xi as saying, adding the Chinese government will make sure the Internet is safe for its people to use.
The country’s domestic websites and mobile applications are “very clean” after a campaign started earlier this year to remove “violent information,” Gu said. He called for support from the international community to tackle Internet terrorism, as “most of the violent information today is from the foreign websites.”…
JeffS says
An article about China, and Mazo’s not here yet, so let me try to out-Mazo Mazo:
Robert is an idiot, and the Huis and the Uighurs, and the Uighurs and the Huis, and the Huis are good guys, and the Uighurs are bad guys, and the Dzungars, and they’re good too, and the Tibetans are bad, and the press is anti-China, and I’m not Sumeru, and:
Wikipedia.com/blah-blah-blah
Wikipedia.com/blah-blah-blah
and Valdemort’s army and Craven Image, and Angry-non and Philip Idiotski, and
Wikipedia.com/blah-blah-blah
Wikipedia.com/blah-blah-blah
and you’re all stupid.
Mirren10 says
That was brill, Jeff ! 🙂
PJG says
I think you did it! He doesn’t need to bother now!
pumbar says
I think you actually out-Mazoed Mazo. He must feel a bit redundant now.
Champ says
LOL!!! I got punk’d!!
Kepha says
China’s is the government that too many of our own power-hungry zhlubs would like to have (as long as they can be on top). China also sees internet censorship as necessary to keep any kind of non-Party or non-State-sanctioned organization from happening.
Mirren10 says
You must have not yet come across Mazo, and his sidekick, Semeru. What Jeff posted is a very funny skit of every post Mazo/Semeru has ever made.
Salah says
” Western governments are so clueless and compromised at this point that they will censor counter-jihad sites, not jihad ones.”
These Western governments that are so clueless and compromised need to go. Period.
They’ll never quit through elections, we need to FORCE them out of power.
They’ve done it in Egypt, and they’ve done it peaceably.
Here’s how:
1-It started with a group of four people, two youg men and two young women, all of them in their early twenties or so. They called the group “Tamarrod” (Rebellion.)
2-They prepared a petition asking for early elections or face a popular uprising on June, 30, 2013 (i.e. 3 months later.)
3- They went door to door asking every citizen to sign it.
4- Soon after, the number of volunteers to collect signatures rose to thousands and thousands. They were all over the country gathering signatures.
5- They gathered 22 million properly signed petitions before June 30.
6- On the fixed date (June 30), 33 million Egyptians took to the streets all over the country.
7- They stayed there until, a few days later, the army decided to side with the people.
8- That’s how THEY WON.
Today, Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood thugs are in prison facing justice.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
dumbledoresarmy says
Advice to any Chinese govt spooks who may be peering over our shoulders (bet they are).
**Leave the internet strictly alone**. It is very necessary for all Infidels everywhere on earth to be able to compare notes, share information and histories (*all* major infidel groups have been and/ or are being attacked by Muslims whether from within and/ or from without) and raise awareness and build morale so that each of their countries can **resist** jihad terror.
FOCUS ON THE MOSQUES.
The mosques is where it’s at. Always has been, is, and always will be as long as Islam continues to burden this wretched planet.
See ex-Muslim Sam Solomon, “The Mosque and Its Role in Society”. Get it translated into Mandarin and into Cantonese and give it to every local government official. Make *every* communist party member read it. The mosque is *dangerous*.
Look at what Kenya’s been doing. They’ve been raiding the mosques, and look what they’re finding! Well, guess what, *most* mosques are like that.
Gang bases. Forts. Centres for recruitment-and-incitement against all Infidels and against all non-Muslim governments everywhere.
Raid. the. mosques.
Search the mosques.
RAZE. the. mosques.
(PS, Leave the Christians alone. And Buddhists, and any other peaceful members of other *non-Muslim* belief systems. If you leave the Christians alone, and let them get on with the job of deprogramming Muslims and turning them into…Christians…life in China will become much more peaceful over time).
PPS – Do. not. recruit apparently-tame Muslims into the army or the police force. Just. DON’T. If you do, in time, you will regret it.
Brian Hoff says
There are other 100 million muslim in China they where there since the 7th century, They are peaceful hard working chinese. How daqre you called then all terrorist. Than muslim grave yard was vandize by you people who hate muslim here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpL2oZA3BKM&feature=youtu.be. Here is than other video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RWdEtFlq0&feature=youtu.be. I would treat this as than tertrorist act support by Robert Spencer.
Roger says
China is already monitoring Skype and regular telephone calls. I’ve had my call to a relative there suddenly cut off right after I brought up a sensitive subject, and said relative received a “visit” shortly thereafter. Living in China is fine if you do not attract attention; provocateurs are in every train and at every major tourist stop, and you do not want to engage them. It is a monolithic state that executes thousands of its own every year (China is number one). Muslims in China do not stand a chance.
Draki says
I don’t think we need to worry about internet censorship for terrorists, maybe for normal people. Keeping the Net open for terrorists seems to be the plan right now to make seeking and destroying easier. To destroy the idea of islam, censoring it won’t work.