Chinese loggers on SOPA blackout

[Quantum Windbag]

But it will never happen here.

Still, Wen supports U.S. activists challenging the bills, saying it’s a slippery slope to lesser web access. He said China’s so-called Great Firewall, which blocks access to many foreign sites like Facebook and Twitter, was first billed as a strategy to stop piracy and pornography.

“Now it’s being abused and extended to thousands of websites,” he said.

Ironically, China’s 513 million web-users have relatively free access when it comes to the very sites targeted by the, now faltering, Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Those include BitTorrent sites such as Extratorrent and sellers of counterfeit goods like Taobao.

Bloggers in China sound off on SOPA blackout - Los Angeles Times

 

[Mr. H.]

The bloggers are loggers?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The bloggers are loggers?

Only in typos.

 

[Trajan]

yes, and its amazing how that slippery slope argument seems to go only one way.

 

[Mr. H.]

Sounds like the Chinese blogger loggers are at loggerheads with their government.