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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".
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NY Times David Barboza: Mr. Wei’s widow. . .said she had been ordered by the government not to talk to the media. . Mr. Wei is now being hailed as a brave “citizen journalist” and a martyr. [Some] are saying justice came because of the publicity raised by bloggers, pursuing their own brand of just
A great summary from John at Global Voices of the bullshit rumor of a total RSS block in China, which some of the world's websites - BoingBoing, Techcrunch, Arstechnica, Mashable, to name a few - all bought into.
Suckers...
Do yo' damn homework.
Well, at least no bras in TV commercials anyhow... Because let's face it, if the Government were to ban bras altogether, it might just result in a harmony overload for the Middle Kingdom!
In anticipation of the CPC National Congress next month, the Chinese Government has just banned all overtly
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.
Rebecca McKinnon profiles blogger Liu Xiaoyuan, who is suing his blog host for censoring content. He says the Chinese constitution doesn't allow such censorship (good luck with that one). In looking at Liu, McKinnon outlines some of the complexities that make China's information control regime so
In a country where every truth is a lie and every lie is a truth, it can be near impossible to figure out what is what. This latest LLW post tries to make sense of it all.
If you ask Ma Lik, people in Hong Kong only deserve suffrage when they all agree that Beijing is full of lovable overlords and Tiananmen Square really wasn't so bad as those disgruntled anti-China foreigners in the world's media say it was. ImageThief has a different take.
BEIJING -- Yahoo Inc., under fire from civil-rights groups for its indirect role in human rights abuses in China, is answering critics by setting up a fund to give victims of government censorship legal and other assistance.
The webco has been charged with complicity in the jailing and torture o
Of course, the CCP’s jealous nature views the flag as a symbol of a Tibetan identity outside of their control, and Beijing has never displayed tolerance for anything or anyone that challenges them for popularity. Just ask the FLG.
where there's a will, there's a way (to surf the web that is!)
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 ...
The 88s describes a personal friend of his that works for the internet police in Beijing. Then a long debate follows in the comments about whether it is moral to have friends like this.
Another site with accurate information on your site's status behind the Great Firewall
The Humanaught's recent post talks about China's net nanny finally unblocking information mega-site Wikipedia, drawing particular attention to the fact that the Chinese version of the site is still very m
When Public Enemy, the militant rap group, came to Beijing this weekend they were not censored at all. In seems The Rolling Stones are a bigger threat to authoritarian rule than lyrics like "Our freedom of speech is freedom or death; we got to fight the powers that be."
