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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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... ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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