`The Great Firewall (GFW; simplified Chinese: 防火长城; traditional Chinese: 防火長城; pinyin: Fánghuǒ Chángchéng) is the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People's Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically. Its role in internet censorship in China is to block access to selected foreign websites and to slow down cross-border internet traffic.[1] The effect includes: limiting access to foreign information sources, blocking foreign internet tools (e.g. Google Search,[2] Facebook,[3] Twitter,[4] Wikipedia,[5][6] and others) and mobile apps, and requiring foreign companies to adapt to domestic regulations.[7][8]

Besides censorship, the GFW has also influenced the development of China's internal internet economy by nurturing domestic companies[9] and reducing the effectiveness of products from foreign internet companies.[10] The techniques deployed by the Chinese government to maintain control of the Great Firewall can include modifying search results for terms, such as they did following Ai Weiwei’s arrest, and petitioning global conglomerates to remove content, as happened when they petitioned Apple to remove the Quartz business news publication’s app from its Chinese App Store after reporting on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.[11][12]

The Great Firewall was formerly operated by the SIIO, as part of the Golden Shield Project. Since 2013, the firewall is technically operated by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which is the entity in charge of translating the Chinese Communist Party's doctrine and policy into technical specifications.[13]

As mentioned in the "one country, two systems" principle, China's special administrative regions (SARs) such as Hong Kong and Macau are not affected by the firewall, as SARs have their own governmental and legal systems and therefore enjoy a higher degree of autonomy. Nevertheless, the U.S. State Department has reported that the central government authorities have closely monitored Internet use in these regions,[14] and Hong Kong's National Security Law has been used to block websites documenting anti-government protests.[15]

The term Great Firewall of China is a combination of the word firewall with the Great Wall of China, and was first used by Australian Sinologist Geremie Barmé in 1997.[16][17]

The Sum Of The Freeze Is Equal To The Removal Of The Balls Of The Russian Interloper.

Black is the colour of Money.
The Black Market is the oldest in history.
Takes a Black Man to run an Economy for a billion little Yellow people.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 1^st, 2022 at 8:12am:


Complete garbaga, again.

Money is a symbol of value. You could carry physical objects with you to exchange them for other physical objects but it would be cumbersome in the extreme. It is easier and better to have a unit of measure for the value of various objects and services and exchange that measure (money).

By your idiotic reckoning other measures - metre, hectare, ton, etc  - are delusions because they are also ultimately random measures of real thing, length,  adea, weight etc

Until the middle of the 19th century, privately owned banks in Great Britain and Ireland were free to issue their own banknotes. Paper currency issued by a wide range of provincial and town banking companies in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland circulated freely as a means of payment. - Wiki

Interesting post from Australia's leading MMT economist prof. Bill  Mitchell.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=49327

The IMF shows us that the central bank monetary financing taboo has no substance

Note: Mitchell observes that the IMF seems to acknowledge  the 'taboo' of the CB creating money as such, but the final two sentences reveal the conventional paranoia: 

"Which means that all the hype that surrounds the ‘taboo’ about the private sector fearing inflation if the government acts in this way is based on nothing substantive.

"But that doesn’t stop the IMF falling back into lockstep with the fiction (that CB money creation will cause inflation)  when they conclude that “departures from central bank independence can be very dangerous … [and have] … devastating effects on economies and livelihoods”.

So fear will force endless austerity on the population, austerity which negatively affects the poor the most, as governments attempt to pay back covid debt and rein in inflation.

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 7^th, 2022 at 1:17pm:


Dear God you're full of nothing but googled shyte!

MMT was incorporated by Keynesian economics.