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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Thailand's political unrest takes the fight to the Internet

Blogs Another year, another uprising. However, it does look like the current administration headed by Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Democrat Party has taken censorship to a new level. It first started with ... Read story »

Premier Wan rocked the Chinese cyberspace

Blogs Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, rocked the Chinese cyber community by holding a 2 hour-long online chat with Netizens. This event was jointly hosted by the Central Government Web site (http://english.gov.cn) and ... Read story »

Review: The Wikipedia Revolution

Blogs When I first heard of Andrew Lih's new book about Wikipedia, I'm certain there was a questioning look on my face. I couldn't help but think that a book about an encyclopedia ... Read story »

Web-surfing zombies

Blogs In my previous post titled "The change we need", I inspected some restrictions enforced by industrial countries like the US on a typical Internet user in Iran. Now, I'm going to ... Read story »

So not the censorship on NTSCMP

Blogs content added: scroll down NTSCMP has posted a claim on its web site that PCCW has contacted Dr. Adams directly and said the problem was technical and it has been fixed. ... Read story »

Up all night in my custom-made suit

Blogs These tailor-made dreams are really a thing of beauty. If I had a camera-phone I'd take a picture of it. I look rather James Bondish, or so said a managing director ... Read story »

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