censorship

blogs.wsj.com — Twitter sent its digital street cred tumbling on Thursday night when it announced that it would being selectively censoring content as a way to enter countries with “different ideas” about freedom of expression.

www.forbes.com — In the cat-and-mouse game between Chinese censors and Internet users, the government seems to be testing a new mousetrap–one that may be designed to detect and block tunnels through its Great Firewall even when the data in those tunnels is aimed at a little-known computer and obscured by encryption.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The United States has asked the Chinese government to provide details of its internet censorship policy in a bid to ensure fair competition in a letter from the US ambassador to WTO, Michael Punke. Many US commercial websites have not been able to enter the country's market due to its selective blocking of content on the internet, often referred to as the "Great Firewall of China."

www.guardian.co.uk — The brothers of a jailed Chinese Nobel peace prize winner have said that they were recently allowed a rare visit to see him and that he was in good health.

chinahopelive.net — One Chinese author's quest to salvage first-hand accounts of Maoist China - and the dignity and humanity of an entire generation - before it's too late: "This madness has taken hold of me, and will not let me go: I cannot believe that Chinese people always take the truth of their lives with them to the grave."