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Articles on Censorship, China

Chinese Netizens struggling to access free VPNs

Blogs A lot of Chinese Netizens, missing the Web sites that have been blocked during 2009--and remain blocked right now--such as YouTube, Facebook and Blogspot blogs, have been scrambling to find free ... Read story »

US asks China to drop "mandatory" special filtering software for PCs

Crave The US Trade Representative has written a letter to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce asking that the country drop its requirement that all new PCs sold in China have special filtering ... Read story »

China delays rule for Net-screening software

Crave Green Dam allows users to specify categories of sites to block. China has indefinitely delayed enforcement of a requirement that PC makers preinstall Green Dam-Youth Escort software that experts believe would ... Read story »

Green Dam bursts under Netizen pressure

Blogs I had meant to post this yesterday when I learned of it, but having my nation's birthday to celebrate proved too much of a distraction--apologies. So, if you've not yet heard, ... Read story »

Green Dam Youth Escort: A summary of the Holey Harlot

Blogs Not since the release of Windows Vista has such a poorly designed, expensively developed, non-mandatory but strongly encouraged, scenically sounding piece of software created such a buzz as has Green Dam ... Read story »

Harmonization goes one step further, soon to be on all Chinese PCs

Blogs Well, it's June 9--five days after that anniversary of events that "never happened"--and Internet access is limping back to normal here in the PRC. Twitter is unblocked and Flickr is... erm... ... Read story »

China milk cover-up still being covered up

Blogs Well, it looks as though the authorities may have been aware of this whole milk scandal as early as last year. And there are some pretty serious allegations floating around that ... Read story »

Obama: "I have never used Twitter"

Blogs One of the interesting things to come out of his just concluded townhall meeting in Shanghai was US President Barack Obama's admission: "I have never used Twitter". Obama casually divulged this ... Read story »

On Chinese media: Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Blogs Mark Twain said that, though I don't think he'd ever been to China. Although if he were around today, he'd probably have noticed familiar patterns of scandal-denial-apologize in the Chinese media. ... Read story »

Censored: The Harmony Papers

Blogs In the midst of the big meeting, Reporters w/out Borders has released a report "by a Chinese technician working in the Internet sector" which closely examines the Chinese system of Internet ... Read story »

The biggest China tech story of 2007

Blogs I considered writing about the Great Firewall. I considered writing about how sites like Wikipedia, Blogger, YouTube, Feedburner--how all of 'em were subject to being blocked or censored by China at ... Read story »

Clobber Chinese censorship with Freedom Sticks

Blogs In an effort to help journalists in Beijing surf the Web anonymously and unhindered by China's censorship, the Chaos Computer Club out of Germany has been distributing these little USB sticks ... Read story »

Opera accused of censorship, betrayal by Chinese users

Blogs Opera, the maker of Web browsers such as the popular "Opera Mini" for Java-based mobile phones, has been accused of betraying its users in China, by apparently caving in to top-level ... Read story »

Strict new rules for video-sharing in China; but will they be enforced?

Blogs Most likely in response to my recent post about how video-sharing was the biggest China story of 2007, the Chinese Government has moved to "restrict videos online, allowing only state-controlled sites ... Read story »

Blogs have crippled almost all Internet businesses in China?

Blogs A few days ago, I received some "insider news" that there was a government lockdown in one of the biggest data centers in China. The particular incident I received information about ... Read story »

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