links for 2006-02-13

• Comment and opinion from the Times and The Sunday Times - Times Online
  "if American bloggers often take a superficial view of Europe (we all sit on street corners begging, apparently) Europeans must take some of the blame. There simply aren’t enough of us out there working the internet."
  (tags: blogs news media webcred)
• Google.cn: A critique of the critics at blog.matthewstinson.net
  "critics should consider not only the ethical rules they feel Western IT companies should follow but also the needs and desires of Chinese Internet users. We should watch the companies carefully, and pragmatically push them in the right direction."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google microsoft yahoo censorship freespeech humanrights)
• News and jobs for journalists :: BBC refutes claims that Chinese site appeases censors
  "The BBC World Service has rubbished claims that a new language-learning site for China is offering politically neutral content to bypass government censorship."
  (tags: china bbc censorship news)
• U.S. concludes 'Cyber Storm' mock attacks
  "The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers."
  (tags: hackers internet terrorism military blogs)

Comments

[Ian Lamont]

I think that the debate over Western companies like Yahoo, Google and Cisco helping the Chinese government largely ignores an important trend within Chinese Internet policy-making organs: The authorities have lost control of mass communications in China, and are now playing a desperate catch-up game to try to rein in the Internet. It can't be done -- they will always be one or two steps behind the methods and technologies Chinese use to communicate with each other.

[Joseph]

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