links for 2006-01-29

• How to Outwit the World's Internet Censors - New York Times
  "To surf the Web in China and elsewhere without censorship and in marginal safety, said John Palfrey, a Harvard law professor and a member of the initiative, the primary tool is an old standby: the proxy server."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech hacktivism privacy surveillance)
• » Xoogler on Google’s Foray into China : Search Engine Journal
  "an insiders view to the goings on inside Google and the balance of patience and reality"
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google search censorship freespeech)
• Google Hits Glitches Over Video Site, China
  "Google is arguably more vulnerable to public opinion than conventional product companies, because its power -- and its money -- comes from its ability to capture something fleeting: the attention of consumers as they surf on the Internet, which is filled
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google search censorship freespeech)
• Google Images Censors Too in China
  "Compare the actual results of Google.cn vs Google.com for a search for tiananmen square.."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google search)
• Official Google Blog: Google in China
  by Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel "Google users in China today struggle with a service that, to be blunt, isn't very good. ...This problem could only be resolved by creating a local presence, and this week we did so, by launching Google.cn..."
  (tags: google china chineseinternetresearch search censorship freespeech)
• Search's China Syndrome
  "Next Wednesday, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus will host a panel to discuss the Internet's influence on human rights in China."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship google search congress freespeech)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Don't be stupid
  "I think the reason Google is getting its feet held to the fire is simple: It asked for it."
  (tags: china google censorship freespeech congress)
• Microsoft's chairman defends Google in China censorship row - Markets - Times Online
  "Bill Gates says that his rival should not be criticised for agreeing to demands from the Chinese Government to restrict access to politically sensitive websites and argues that the internet will, in any case, aid democracy"
  (tags: google microsoft china censorship freespeech search chineseinternetresearch)
• BBC NEWS | Americas | US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
  "A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks."
  (tags: internet surveillance psyops netwarfare freespeech military)
• Independent Online Edition > Business Comment
  "Business investors in China take a similarly pragmatic approach. Sir Richard Branson, who is in the final throes of negotiating a major investment in China for his Virgin Mobile brand, tells me during a fleeting conversation between meetings that he is w
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch virgin branson google microsoft internet censorship freespeech davos wef)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Why Google in China makes sense
  "Millions of people may now be turning away from Google in disgust, but I've just reinstated them as the default search for my Firefox toolbar, because I think it should be supported for its brave decision."
  (tags: google china search chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech)
• US Congress steps into Chinese Web censorship - ZDNet UK News
  "Representatives from Google and other Internet companies have been called to a Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing on Wednesday and to a 16 February session of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Global Human Rights."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google microsoft yahoo congress censorship freespeech)
• Free Press : Net Freedom Under Fire: Act Now
  "Join tens of thousands of Media for Democracy and Free Press activists who are standing up to protect our Net freedoms. Tell the CEO's to stop treating our Internet as their fiefdom"
  (tags: netaccess freespeech netneutraliy netgovernance)

Comments

[Tom Foremski]

What if the blogosphere protested the China censorship by cutting off access to their blogs from Chinese users? Would it be ethical, would it work?

[Joseph]

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