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Thailand tackles online censorship again

Blogs Prathet Thai, or land of the free, is what Thailand is called in the Thai language. Land of the free (and home of the brave) also defines the US. As the ... 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 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 »

Scrutinize Philippines cybercrime bill, Filipino Netizens urged

Blogs With the Philippine House of Representatives getting ready to deliberate on House Bill (HB) 6794 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009, Filipino Netizens are being urged to read and critique ... Read story »

Internet censorship plagues journalists at Olympics

Crave With the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games a mere 10 days away, members of the media have learned that there is at least one thing they can expect not to ... Read story »

Olympic organizers cut deal to censor Net access

Crave Allowing journalists access to an uncensored Internet apparently isn't on the International Olympic Committee's list of things to do before the Beijing games begin next week. A day after journalists learned ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

Google told to remove porn by Chinese government

Crave Google has acknowledged that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography, but it still won't say whether the government ordered tighter censorship ... Read story »

Why China's "Great Firewall" is so anti-social (networking)...

Blogs 2009 in China has turned out to be the year of heightened Web censorship, implemented by the nationwide filtering system known--not very affectionately--as "The Great Firewall".Many hoped that the Beijing Olympics ... Read story »

Chinese block darn near everything ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

Blogs I intentionally try to keep things apolitical here on The Tech Dynasty. This is a tech blog, and politics have little to do with the wonderfully utopian world of technology. However, ... Read story »

Comparing China, US Internet usage

Blogs A couple of days ago Silicon Alley Insider posted a chart displaying the differences and similarities between Chinese and US Web usership. The chart mines and melds data from the Pew Research ... Read story »

Testing five VPNs that'll get you back on YouTube, Facebook in China

Blogs Living and working in China may bring many cultural pleasures, but trying to use the Internet here is a daily headache. It's not just nearly every English-language social-networking and video-sharing site ... Read story »

Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video fallout: Greed, censorship and hypocrisy

Blogs Unfortunately, the Katrina Halili-Hayden Kho sex video scandal, which has launched thousands of pirated DVDs and generated even more online views, is still the talk of the town in the Philippines. ... Read story »

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