Imitation websites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.
YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the US-based web giant not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over web censorship and cyber attacks.
The separate projects went up within a day of each other in mid-January, just after Google's threat to leave.
"This should be an issue with Google's intellectual property, also with China censorship," said Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project at the University of California-Berkeley. "I cannot see how these sites can survive very long without facing these two issues."
Both sites were still working. It wasn't clear what Chinese authorities would do with them, if anything.
China's National Copyright Administration has been cracking down on illegally run websites and this month issued a code of ethics, but no statement was posted on its website about the Google and YouTube imitations.
Google had little comment. "The only comment I can give you right now is just to confirm that we're not affiliated," spokeswoman Jessica Powell said in an email.
China is famous for its fake products, but this is the first time such prominent sites have been copied in this way, Xiao said.
The creators of the two sites could not be reached.
Sebut pasal sebat, teringat pengalaman dekat sekolah dulu. Dah lost count berapa kali b****t ni kene cium dengan rotan. Fuh, bile sebut je, terasa balik birat-birat2 dekat b****t ni timbul balik. Sakit beb! Ade sekali tu, sebab tak buat buku nota geog, kene sebat dgn penolong kanan. Sekali sebat 3 line naik. Cam adidas. Hahaha. Paling bes sekali je sebat. Tapi 3 kali. Panas je b****t kalo nak duduk atas kerusi. Huhu..
Gambar di atas hanya hiasan semata-mata
Tapi tu semua sedikit sebanyak pengalaman pasal sebat masa zaman sekolah. Kalau hukuman sebat dalam penjara sure lagi dahsyat. Masa aku darjah 6 dulu, cikgu sekolah aku jemput pegawai penjara untuk bagi ceramah pasal hukuman rotan ni. Aku pon tak tau la ape kes sampai nak kene bagi ceramah. Psiko je kot sebab kitorang ni nakal sangat. Tapi, memang gerun la nengok gambar-gambar dgn equipments untuk menyebat ni. Pegawai penjara tu siap demo lagi teknik sebatan. POMMMMMM!! (sile bayangkan efek dan teknik sebatan mengikut imaginasi sendiri ye). Rase nak terkencing pon ade nengok mannequin tu disebat.
Okay, tu kalau sebatan cara sivil, tapi ramai ke yang tahu cara sebatan islam? Mind set manusia sekarang, kalau cakap pasal sebat, mesti terbayang cara sivil. So, bila cakap hukum sebat dalam islam, secara automatik islam akan dianggap sebagai kejam. Itulah perspektif yang selalu diterima apabila bercakap mengenai hukum islam. Tapi sebelum anda semua membuat konklusi, baca ini dulu. Mungkin perspektif anda akan berubah.
Caning as a school punishment for boys is still routine in a number of formerly British territories including Singapore, Malaysia and Zimbabwe. Until recently it had also been common in Australia (now banned in public schools; not entirely abolished in all private schools), New Zealand (banned from 1990) and South Africa (banned in public and private schools alike from 1996).
Some info to share about origin of the name of days...
The names of the days are in some cases derived from Teutonic deities or, such as in Romance languages, from Roman deities. The early Romans, around the first century, used Saturday as the first day of the week. As the worshipping of the Sun increased, the Sun's day (Sunday) advanced from position of the second day to the first day of the week (and saturday became the seventh day).
Sunday The name comes from the Latin dies solis, meaning "sun's day": the name of a pagan Roman holiday. It is also called Dominica (Latin), the Day of God. The Romance languages, languages derived from the ancient Latin language (such as French, Spanish, and Italian), retain the root.
Tuesday This day was named after the Norse god Tyr. The Romans named this day after their war-god Mars: dies Martis.
French: mardi; Italian: martedi; Spanish: martes. The Germans call Dienstag (meaning "Assembly Day"), in The Netherlands it is known as dinsdag, in Danmark as tirsdag and in Sweden tisdag.
Wednesday The day named to honor Wodan (Odin). The Romans called it dies Mercurii, after their god Mercury.
Thursday The day named after the Norse god Thor. In the Norse languages this day is called Torsdag. The Romans named this day dies Jovis ("Jove's Day"), after Jove or Jupiter, their most important god.
Friday The day in honor of the Norse goddess Frigg. In Old High German this day was called frigedag. To the Romans this day was sacred to the goddess Venus, and was known as dies veneris.
