Twitter创始人：GFW终将会彻底倒塌，方滨兴痛哭
Twitter创始人之一Evan Williams
March 16, 2010 – 8:50AM
Rita Lee/译
Twitter的创始人之一埃文-威廉姆斯（Evan Williams ）在周一的一次技术访谈中谈到，GFW早晚会因为互联网技术的发展而倒塌。
“互联网的浪潮没有人能够阻挡，”威廉姆斯在SXSW嘉年华的访谈节目上说，“很难说在中国那种地方GFW还能坚持多久。”
中国政府通过一种被称作GFW的审核制度严格控制着网络信息，任何被认定是有害的信息都会被删除或屏蔽（这些有害信息包括色情、暴力和政治敏感信息）。
威廉姆斯作出此评论时，正值互联网巨头GOOGLE和中国政府就互联网审查问题对峙。
总部位于加利福尼亚的GOOGLE声称如果中国政府继续要求其对其搜索引擎提供的结果进行审查，它就要退出中国市场。中国则在周五警告GOOGLE如果其停止过滤其搜索结果，则需要对产生的一切后果承担责任。
GOOGLE在今年1月曾声称其受到针对中国人权人士的GMAIL帐号的源代码攻击，并威胁要停止中文搜索引擎的服务甚至于关闭中国业务。但GOOGLE.CN至今仍然在过滤其搜索结果，并持续着其在中国的招聘活动。
“互联网的前景正在逐渐展现，”威廉姆斯说，“它会在全球范围内带来信息民主化，而且将会在未来的10年内持续改变现有的一些制度。”
从2006年创建时开始，TWITTER已逐渐成为了网络时代的超级巨星。人们可以使用TWITTER用不超过140字的信息在网络上分享他们的想法、发现和正在做的事情。
英文原文:
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams told a gathering of the technology faithful on Monday that notorious censorship firewalls in countries such as China will give way to online innovations.
“The Internet is a tidal wave that is going to be impossible for anyone to keep out,” Williams said during an on-stage chat at the South By South West Interactive gathering here.
“In places like China it is hard to say how long those firewalls will be able to hold up,” he said.
Beijing tightly controls online content in a vast system of censorship often called the “Great Firewall of China”, removing information it deems harmful — including pornography and violence, but also politically sensitive material.
Williams’s comments came as Internet colossus Google and China face-off on the censorship of online searches in that country.
California-based Google has said it is prepared to leave the world’s largest online market if Beijing continues to insist on its censoring its Web searches.
China on Friday warned Google it would face “consequences” if it stopped filtering its search results, after the firm threatened to leave the country over cyberattacks and Web censorship.
Google threatened in January to abandon its Chinese-language search engine and perhaps leave China altogether over what it said were cyberattacks aimed at its source code and at the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
The company has since continued to filter results on Google.cn and posted ads for dozens of positions in China, which has 384 million web users.
“We are just realizing the promise of the Internet,” Williams said. “It is about democratization of information that anybody can share with the world… It will continue to change institutions for the coming decades.”
Twitter has become an Internet Age superstar since it was created in 2006 as a way for people to share their thoughts, observations and activities in the form of messages of no more than 140 characters.
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