Search results for censorship
where there's a will, there's a way (to surf the web that is!)
From the Associated Press, China is furthering its promise to "purify the environment" of the Internet by cracking down even harder on China blogs and search engine results.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have done some analysis on how the PRC?s Great Firewall (GFW) handles the ?blocking? or interruption of web page loading midstream when it detects sensitive keywords related to the day after June 3 and certain religious groups. What they discovered is quite surprising, because it indicates that the mechanism is simple, clever, but at the same time, quite straighforward to circumvent. Read on for a layman...
On July 13th Li Yuanlong was sentenced to two years in prison for posting an essy on the Internet outlining his dissatisfaction with China's current regime. His biting words, dubbed as "inciting subversion" by the CCP controlled courts, have been translated by ESWN blog for all to read.
there are no great or small rights but only democracy and totalitarianism. I say that in my vocabulary, there is no China versus outside b...
A BBC article written about internet censorship in the People's Republic of China and how people try/succeed to get around it...
Ironically this article will be blocked for users in China... so maybe use a shield/cloaking site to view it?
China's long arm of the law is set to stretch into its popular karaoke parlours, under a pilot project aimed at preventing patrons from singing songs the government deems "unhealthy."
China has shut down a popular blog by a Tibetan author after she wrote birthday wishes for the Dalai Lama and touched on other sensitive topics, the writer and a website operator told AFP.
Li Datong, former editor of The Freezing Point, gives his thoughts on how media censorship in China is on its last leg. In translation (via the awesome ESWN blog), the commentary is insightful and gives hope towards media in the Middle Kingdom.
Kyle (The Manchurian candidate) has a very interesting take on censorship - "Most westerners view censorship in China as being a tool of the State to oppress and mold the minds of the people into what they wish. This is true, but only to a small degree; it goes way beyond that".
A Chinese court sentenced a New York Times researcher to three years in prison on a fraud conviction Friday, but acquitted him of the more serious charge of revealing state secrets.
CHINA'S crackdown on critics is reaching a climax, with blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng being jailed for four years and three months for organising fellow villagers to disrupt traffic, and researcher for The New York Times Zhao Yan sentenced to three years on a bizarre fraud charge.
Microsoft was already generating criticism last summer, not long after the launch of its portal, because MSN Spaces users frequently experienced restrictions when they used certain words prohibited by the government. Until the beginning of this year, Zhao -- also known by his blog pseudonym Michael Anti -- was able to skirt complete censorship by Microsoft. Zhao told AsiaMedia on July 19, 2005 that he was able to avoid online censorship by knowin...
