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Articles on Censorship

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 »

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 »

Olympic head: No deal on Internet censorship

Crave Olympic officials on Saturday said there was "no deal" with the Chinese Government to restrict Internet access for foreign journalists covering the Beijing Games. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said ... 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 »

China fears Google, Baidu and others could damage mental health of young

Blogs It's been 2009 for a little less than a week and already the folks in charge of "harmonizing" China's Internet are taking their jobs far too seriously. From Danwei.org: China Internet ... Read story »

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

Blogs Here's an interesting newsbyte from the other day. A Chinese official was quoted as saying that "restrict[ing] the broadcasting of Internet videos is beneficial to public interest." Now that comes as ... Read story »

World Economic Forum in Dalian China--Can you spell irony?

Blogs On the opening morning of the "Summer Davos" World Economic Forum, some of the biggest names and brightest minds on the planet have arrived here in Dalian to exchange their ideas. ... Read story »

Davos Dalian: A final word and I'm done

Blogs As a followup to my post about the World Economic Forum here in Dalian China, and to my recent mini-rant where I might have called some people vegetables (sorry, guys, but ... 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 »

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 »

For a Harmonious Society, Chinese govt says NO BRAS!

Blogs Well, at least no bras in TV commercials anyhow... Because let's face it, if the Government were to ban bras altogether, it might just result in a harmony overload for the ... 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 »

Google China chief quits, reasons unknown

Blogs Google Inc's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, has resigned with--two days after his departure--no clear reason. The 49-year-old Taiwan-born, US-educated executive had been with Google ever since its official launch in China ... Read story »

Footage of China's Hu with Toshiba ad is banned

Blogs Many of you will remember the controversy caused back in October after Chinese Netizens complained that their National Day Parade was tainted by an ad for a Japanese company. Hu Jintao's ... Read story »

Can I block Twitter too?

Blogs This has nothing to do with Japan, I know, but I felt compelled to say something about China's recent block of Twitter (and Hotmail and Flickr) and the ensuing gush of ... Read story »

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