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Articles on Censorship

Four weeks after quake China's Internet still crippled

Blogs It's now been nearly a month since a Boxing Day earthquake near Taiwan damaged some of the Internet cables that connect China to the rest of the world. International Web sites ... Read story »

China bloggers still anonymous... for now

Blogs Last week reports started flying around that China's Ministry of Information Industry would begin requiring Chinese bloggers to register for their blogs using their real names and ID numbers. With spoofing, ... Read story »

Flickr blocked: Great Firewall, your mother's in for a long night...

Blogs Flickr.com is the latest victim of China's Net Nanny, otherwise known as the Great Firewall (or GFW for short). While the Flickr site is not actually blocked, access to the image ... Read story »

There be libelers here!

Blogs If something on the Internet approximates libel, do you take it down? Most would say yes. But the question for Internet users is, if the Internet is an approximation toward a ... Read story »

Suing the Great Firewall?

Blogs I bet you didn't think it was possible. Check out this interesting post from Danwei on how one intrepid Chinese Internet user is actually suing the mighty China Telecom since his ... Read story »

Blogging event to discuss freedom of speech

Blogs Read the following in the Guardian Unlimited today: The Observer and Amnesty International are to mark one year of Irrepressible.info, their joint campaign against online censorship, with a global, interactive, online ... Read story »

Does China pay too much for Net access?

Blogs There have been a few reports recently lamenting the price of Internet access in China. The China Daily has now got around to publishing an article comparing the cost of Internet ... Read story »

Chinese girl finds LIVE bug in instant noodles, uploads video

Blogs Here's the latest tainted food story to come out of China. From Chinese YouTube clone youku.com comes an interesting little piece of citizen journalism. Normally, it's mainstream foreign media who run ... Read story »

At Beijing Games, Haier washing-machines spin

Crave In between attending track-and-field events and trying to locate uncensored Web sites, visitors to the Beijing Olympic Games will be able to experience a day in the life of a futuristic-home ... Read story »

What do Chinese users want from Google?

Blogs What could be better than bringing the world's most popular search engine together with the world's most populous country? Especially when you consider that the most populous country, China, is Internet ... Read story »

Latest Internet cafe ban an exercise in futility

Blogs As usual, the annual full session of the National Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (NCPPCC) is proving a fertile time for crackdowns on things seen to be damaging to Chinese society. ... Read story »

The end of the YouTube drama in Indonesia

Blogs Last week, Indonesian users suddenly either could not view or upload videos onto YouTube, Google's online video-sharing service. The country's Government already blocked YouTube, targeting the 17-minute Fitna which splices images ... Read story »

Fancy a bit of SNOG?

Blogs At a content forum organized by Malaysian Debt Ventures (MDV), one of the panelists mentioned a recent WIRED magazine article on what it termed as "Snack-o-tainment" or bite-sized entertainment. Writer Nancy ... Read story »

When .alt becomes .norm

Blogs May 8 this year, I wrote about how the print media in Malaysia, while hardly in a terminal state as far as readership was concerned, was getting some pretty serious competition ... Read story »

Olympic Internet: Paying more for less

Blogs Slashdot reports that Olympic Media Village is going to make journalists pay an amazingly high price in exchange for connecting to the Internet: BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic ... Read story »

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