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Reporters Without Borders has torn a new one in the major Internet companies that have been profiting off of China's need for censorship technology at the first global Internet governance forum. The accussed fed the press their standard PR line, the Reporters Without Borders disagreed. Life went on.

NOTE: this site is blocked in China, so go here instead: http://www.joecool.dk/blog/?p=448 (site is moved)

China: Seems that the Danish woman’s soccer team was spied on through a two-way mirror through tactics meeting in their hotel. But by whom and what really happened?

The story as the media here presents it (this part is my rundown from many news the last 5 days)

The now infamous "reporter" Zi Beijia, who faked the cardboard baozi story in June, was sentenced on Sunday to a year in jail and a 1,000 RMB fine. Wonder if he's told his family that he's just doing an exposee on Chinese prisons and rumours that they serve sawdust in their zhou.

A coalition of advocates met at City Hall in Lower Manhattan to announce the launch of a 24-hour appeal for China to release prisoners -- including journalists, bloggers and artists -- before the Olympics opening ceremony on Aug. 8. "It would show goodwill toward keeping promises they made in 2001 to the International Olympic Committee that they have not yet kept," said Lucie Morillon, Washington director of Reporters Without Borders, which helped organize the appeal.

Campaigns also were launched in Melbourne, Australia; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Hong Kong; Berlin; and other cities.

In John's round-up of Chinese bloggers' responses to the Saffron Revolution, he mentioned that some Chinese bloggers used "this incident as an opportunity to reflect on the state of China's own democratic movement."

Reporters Without Borders | Reporters Sans Frontières
March 30, 2007

The blocking of access to the Observatoire International des Crises website (www.communication-sensible.com) within China since late February after it posted an article, entitled “Shanghai, mon amour,” (Shanghai, my love) warning companies about the risks of trading with China shows that Chinese online censorship is by no means limited to “subversive” political content, Reporters Without Borders said today.

Global Voices asks: So where to find live disaster blogging from this past month’s catastrophe? This blogger has looked but still doesn’t know. Is Chinese media coverage sufficient? Project Diaster’s video blog seems to only bring us training videos and clips from old TV shows. So what’s the problem?

The Dreamblogue (http://blogofdreams.com) recently partnered with Yo2.cn the first free Wordpress blogging platform in China. They have just started and already have 11,000 bloggers!

English-language China bloggers unite! The China Blog Network has arrived.

In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re launching the China Blog Network, a (appropriately enough) network of China blogs that all link together in a ring-around-the-rosie style (we’re praying we don’t all fall down).