For the last decade, China has been fighting – and largely losing – a running battle against the internet, and the free access to information it brings. Its recent insistence on pushing the Green Dam Youth Escort software, an internet content filter, marks its desperate, and ultimately futile pursuit for complete information control.
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Google has yet again done something to bring down the ire of the Chinese media officials. The Chinese government has accused Google of “spreading profanity” (aka porn), and yesterday night, cut off access to the service entirely.
Now that’s twice China has used pornography as a catalyst for going after something on the Internet, the [...]
The Obama administration has been wary of doing or saying anything in the brouhaha surrounding the Iranian elections that might be viewed as American meddling.
On Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off [...]
In the latest development on the protests against the disputed Iranian election results, the Iranian twitterati have made a plea to the rest of the Twitterverse: change your location to Tehran and your time zone to GMT +3:30. It’s not certain whether this will work, but the revolution believes that it will confuse official censors.
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From Engadget:
We’re not exactly supportive of the Chinese government requiring new PCs to be imported with content-filtering software, but like we keep saying, karma’s a bitch: CyberSitter developer Solid Oak says it’s found stolen code inside the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software mandated by Chinese authorities, and it’s considering filing a lawsuit to halt [...]
Unless you’ve had your head under a rock in the past week, you’ll have heard about the massive protests in the streets of Iran against the “re-election” of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose government is under deep suspicion for blatant voter fraud. You probably have heard that Twitter has been abuzz with news streams and updates [...]
The Chinese internet regulators have placed so much pressure on services to keep out access to sites and blogs about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that many sites have voluntarily shut down for the week. June 4, 2009 is the 20th anniversary of the bloody day, when the Chinese Communist government unleashed its army against [...]
