Written After XX: As Marx Once Said

First things first: socialism is great! I must thank the country, thank the Party, thank the government, thank the Central Committee, thank the leaders, thank the leaders’ mistresses and so on for giving me the chance to say “socialism” is great!(Thanks to @Feiyan, my good buddy for the reminder, I couldn’t forget that line.) The XX here means Google+Firefox+Wordpress=G+F+W (written as G+0+W from here on), and it also means the XX Prize, among other things. Marx once said: censorship, like slavery, can never be legal, even if it has existed as law a thousand times over. Whatever Marx said is the truth, and it’s what the XX Party is supposed to do. After XX, these past few days have been anything but calm: the XX mass protests, the XX incident, the XX Prize, XXX… so much, too much. Since the internet is an open environment that’s hard to control, XX is bound to censor and block it. “Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.” - Article 35 of the Constitution. …As you can see, at certain times… XX will still XX, so this article seems to be nothing but a blank, bounced check. Most of the time, people get “talked out of it,” or some region gets XX’d, or XX. A perfectly good Gavatar avatar acceleration server got blocked, what a tragedy… I still remember the Xi Xiang plan in March, which was where my wall-climbing began. Some of those files are still on my computer, and I also dug up the black-box test report on XXX. Below is the network topology diagram. I’ll skip the written parts.

Big Brother in every country has the same hobby: expanding his power without limit in the name of national security. The CNCI that Uncle Sam uses for deep network inspection has a budget of 30 billion dollars. How many times bigger is that than G+0+W or Golden+Shield? Can’t you feel the global ghost of that Agency? The only difference is that Big Brother in our glorious nation is so clumsy and shameless that even ordinary people can see through him, while the free people of capitalist countries, in their fear, run into the arms of Big Brother’s unlimited power. The dawn of cyberpunk is still a long way off. Fighting the old pre-cyberpunk powers requires megacorps to grow faster, so Google, when you need to do evil, don’t hesitate.

So, in an age where pulling the plug on the internet is routine, tearing down G+F+W (cursing F+U+C+K G+0+W every now and then is enough), would not improve internet censorship at all. It could instead bring about real-name registration and the rise of Golden+Shield: a bunch of people who only know how to punish others and nothing about technology, yanking cables at random and putting the internet under martial law. The “General Theory” already said it: what both sides need is a dynamic balance in a state of struggle. Everyone just muddles along and keeps their distance. Netizens have their ways over the wall, and the GFW has something to report to its bosses, and that’s that. What we can do… seems to be nothing but keeping silent… Silence, silence, just as Lu Xun said: some peoples, because complaining is useless, stop even complaining, and so they become silent peoples, and slowly decline further and further… While I’m at it, a plug for my little site FeelSSH. It’s a free SSH account site, hehe, set up by me. It’s still free for now, and there may be paid SSH accounts later. If anyone wants to see that stuff, the materials I mentioned~~ you can find them at G+0+W Technical Review. You’ll need to get over the wall first to read it.