On Wednesday 13 Apr 2011 17:27:40 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 Apr 2011 14:13:29 Ian Clarke wrote:
> > http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=383&report=97
> >
> > These guys did extensive surveys in various countries. Freenet came out
> > on-top in China. Might be worth a news story on the website.
>
> How the hell do we get 5 stars on ease of use *and* on performance, in
> subjective ratings from Chinese users? IMHO neither is credible.
>
> Something very fishy here. Is there another Freenet out there? Is the
> freenet-china still up? I don't get the impression that we have a huge
> community of chinese speakers on the main Freenet, at least if there is it's
> somewhat invisible?
>
> Note that the evaluations from other countries are much lower. And there's no
> direct analysis of Freenet in their larger paper. Although the Chinese seem
> to be ideal for Freenet in that they tend to have both home PCs *and*
> broadband (even if it doesn't generally allow for 24x7 operation as it's
> usually time limited). Also maybe they're a bit geekier than the rest?
>
> The spread of evaluations is relatively narrow on most of their graphs mind
> you ...
>
> Also, expect trouble from the censors if they read this. E.g. blocking the
> seednodes... the chinese numbers might just reflect the fact that there have
> increasingly been difficulties accessing Google lately, and Tor has been
> mostly blocked - so in terms of objective performance, until the Chinese
> block our seednodes we may well be the best option for *getting a connection
> of some kind*.
>
> I'm not sure how their questionnaire that these numbers are supposedly based
> on fits with Freenet, it asks about blocked websites... Maybe it's an
> artefact of the survey design?
>
http://freenet-china.org/ hasn't been updated since 2003. Maybe they unblocked
it and filled it with censorware, but I'd expect them to make it look like
they've updated it in that case ...
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