links for 2008-07-04

• Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom - ReadWriteWeb
  "The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services."
  (tags: chat opensource technology twitter socialnetworking freeculture creativecommons)
• Robert J. Elisberg: The Imperfection of Barack Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post
  "After all, while I don't like a few of Barack Obama's limited moves to the center, I like John McCain's repeated moves to the right even less."
  (tags: obama politics election2008 vote2008 FISA)
• Arianna Huffington: Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers - Politics on The Huffington Post
  The Obama brand has always been about inspiration, a new kind of politics...Pulling it off the shelf and replacing it with a political product geared to pleasing America's vacillating swing voters ...would be a fatal blunder.
  (tags: obama vote2008 election2008 politics)
• Chinese Bloggers Scale The 'Great Firewall' In Riot's Aftermath - WSJ.com
  "One recent strategy involves online software that flips sentences to read right to left instead of left to right, and vertically instead of horizontally."
  (tags: censorship china internet chineseinternetresearch freespeech blogs bloggers blogging zola)
• Chinese Websites Call On Establishing New Internet Culture - ChinaTechNews.com - The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News, Information, and Commentary on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Telecom, and Wi
  "The websites propose that Internet service providers work to provide first class service, run services in a civilized manner, strengthen self-discipline, accept the public's supervision and resist "bad habits"."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship self-censorship freespeech)
• 古书竖排文字转换器
  Tool for changing the direction of Chinese characters to get around censorship.
  (tags: blogs blogging bbs censorship freespeech gfw tools china chineseinternetresearch)
• The right to blog: freedom’s next frontier | Democracy News Analysis from open Democracy
  "A summit on global citizen media highlights the experience of activist bloggers under authoritarian regimes and raises questions about how best to champion their work, says Evgeny Morozov."
  (tags: activism cyber-activism globalvoices blogs blogging censorship freespeech humanrights internet)
• Shanghaiist: China Tech News: Youku and Ku6 raise $30 mil, Weng'an censorship and China's rural netizens
  Lots of useful factoids in this July 1st roundup.
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch video internet business freespeech censorship)

Comments

[carryanne]

Hi, I saw you in a documentary recently. It was really good, informative. I appreciate your intellect very much.

I have come across an article that can help people see China more accurately. I think everyone should read it because it exposes certain facets of the communist party’s ways of censoring reality and justice. If we do not hear about this from dissidents willing to risk everything, then the CCP would effectively have repressed all knowledge of it’s crimes and would get away with it’s absolute abuse of power over China and people of the world.

The article is titled: The Last Hero of Tiananmen
by Philip P. Pan
How an aging doctor became the conscience of China.

As linked to on my blog, http://nomoreccp.wordpress.com/

Actually this story if from Philip Pans new book: OUT OF MAO’S SHADOW, The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

[mahathir_fan]

I have come across a youtube video that can help people see the media 's propaganda on China more accurately. I think everyone should see it because it exposes certain facets of the western media’s ways of censoring reality and justice. If we do not hear about this from eyewitnesses willing to risk everything, then the western media would effectively have repressed all knowledge of reality and would get away with it’s absolute abuse of information over China and people of the world.

The youtube video is titled: The myth of Tiananmen massacre
by Mahathir_fan
How an aging doctor became the conscience of journalism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbX0gAk3zRA

Actually there is another Tiananmen hero who died for hanging on to his ideals in Communism: General Peng Dehuai, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Dehuai
but you never hear about him in the Western media because he defeated the Americans in North Korea and he died for Communism.