links for 2008-06-06

• MEDIA-SINGAPORE: Restrictions Following Critics to Cyberspace | Asia Media Forum
  "While Singapore’s restrictions on the media are no surprise to anyone, the ongoing legal action against a foreign blogger who criticised the country’s justice system has raised fears that these tight controls are now being pushed into what has so far
  (tags: singapore bloggers freespeech law)
• China tightens media limits loosened after earthquake - Los Angeles Times
  "China has begun rolling back many of the media and online freedoms that were permitted in the immediate aftermath of last month's earthquake."
  (tags: journalism china chineseinternetresearch internet media freespeech earthquake censorship)
• Tiananmen, 1989-2008 | openDemocracy
  "The nineteenth anniversary of the Beijing massacre is a moment of poignant remembrance and reaffirmed commitment to democracy and human rights, says the Hong Kong legislator Emily Lau"
  (tags: humanrights democracy china hongkong)
• China Media Project » Blog Archive » Guangdong journalists recalled from the earthquake zone
  "When you take a historical view on Hu Jintao’s comments, they show a moderate openness. The flip side of that openness, however, is a much more nuanced approach to CONTROL."
  (tags: china journalism earthquake censorship media)
• Nart Villeneuve - YouTube or China?
  "odd behavior concerning a video on YouTube about Tibet: from Canada this video is available, from China it is not. However, the video is not subject to the same notification as videos removed for terms of use violations or videos that are restricted by g
  (tags: censorship china youtube chineseinternetresearch freespeech video)
• Dinner with former U.S. FCC Chairman Reed Hundt
  Kaiser Kuo lets us in on a very interesting conversation - including a disagreement with Larry Lessig about the role of technology policy in shaping the web's evolution.
  (tags: technology policy internet)
• 56.com Incurs Wrath of SARFT?
  "The site’s IP address had been replaced with a non-routeable IP address, effectively preventing access to the site. The shut down — the second to impact a top-tier video sharing site — was in discussion for a few weeks, the insider said.."
  (tags: video china chineseinternetresearch censorship)
• Adviser Says McCain Backs Bush Wiretaps - NYTimes.com
  "A top adviser to Senator John McCain says Mr. McCain believes that President Bush’s program of wiretapping without warrants was lawful, a position that appears to bring him into closer alignment with the sweeping theories of executive authority pushed
  (tags: obama election2008 u.s.a. surveillance policy technology)
• Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers | Threat Level from Wired.com
  "An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage of the 18,000 broadband customers under surveillance believed
  (tags: internet privacy security spying surveillance csr business britain)