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Articles on Censorship

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 »

Peeping Tom: Some thoughts on Skype Spygate

Blogs Both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Skype's China partner, Tom (or Tom-Skype), has been monitoring and recording instant message chats. A Canadian, Nart ... Read story »

Hotspot Shield makes VPNs more accessible

Blogs Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have been widely used in the business world because of the high level of security that they can provide. Essentially, a VPN can be thought of ... Read story »

Porn on a plane: Flight attendants want filters

Crave Coffee, tea, or porn? "I don't think so," say American Airline flight attendants. Leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents some 19,000 workers including American Airlines flight attendants, ... Read story »

Microsoft patents the censoring of speech

Blogs Via Slashdot, there's news that Microsoft will be automatically censoring audio data for broadcast. It'll probably turn out like the following video: Read story »

Feedburner blocked (temporarily)--Feedsky pees pants in excitement

Blogs Reports are coming in that Feedburner was blocked temporarily overnight here in China, causing thousands of anxious bloggers (myself included) to check it out with their own two eyes. Could it ... Read story »

Online video mess quickly becoming a "clustermess"

Blogs This news is just funny to me, for some reason. According to Variety, about 50 major Chinese sites have agreed to stop linking to pirated content such as TV shows and ... Read story »

China's inferiority complex

Blogs This concept is key to understanding China. And while I cannot claim to fully comprehend everything about China (can anybody, really?), a lot of things became a lot clearer to me ... Read story »

Hot potato! Tudou shutdown because of porn?

Blogs Rumors are flying all over the place about China video giant Tudou.com (it means potato in Chinese) being shut down, because it was suspected there was porn on the site. That ... Read story »

Podcast "Search Engine" and listeners help get CBC.ca unblocked

Blogs The Great Firewall is a phenomenon that many Internet users in China have been repeatedly beating their heads on for quite some time now. That was especially true for many of ... Read story »

What's going on with Facebook in China?

Blogs A ton of people on twitter are complaining about having trouble with Facebook from within China. Some people are even speculating that it's been blocked. I can verify that it's not ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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