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Articles on Censorship

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 »

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 »

Experience the Great Firewall: China Channel Firefox plugin

Blogs For anyone out there who wants to experience what it's like to surf the Net from inside China, you can do so by installing the China Channel Firefox addon. When turned ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Play Rock Band Lego-style

Crave Do you feel like you need one more music game for the holidays? It's getting pretty strained, isn't it, between The Beatles: Rock Band, iGuitar Hero 5, DJ Hero, Band ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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