Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
This is a fascinating article about China’s censorship efforts. I thought this was a bit weird, though: “servers (short for file servers, which are essentially very large-capacity computers)” I don’t think “server” is short for anything. And I kind of thought the term had long since become common knowledge among the sort of folks who read The Atlantic.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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