links for 2006-02-04

• Google's China portal inaccessible in Shanghai, Beijing - Forbes.com
  "Google Inc's recently launched China portal was inaccessible in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Beijing on Friday, although the US-hosted Google.cn site could still be reached from outside China. "
  (tags: google china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech search)
• Some grown-up questions for Google Becky Hogge - openDemocracy
  "What does Google mean when it says "don’t be evil"? The company’s expansion in China will reveal whether it is on the side of citizen or state, says Becky Hogge."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google censorship freespeech trust search)
• Google Corporate Information: Making Money
  "We determined that removing certain information from search results on Google.cn rates a 6 on our scale. Withdrawing from China qualifies as an 8. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google censorship freespeech trust search)
• » Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com
  "However in recent weeks there have been signs of possible cracks in this user-driven system, with some people wondering whether the 'wisdom of the masses' is more like a mob mentality at times."
  (tags: digg webcred web2.0 news aggregation)
• EastSouthWestNorth: They Only Look At EastSouthWestNorth
  "If the Chinese blogosphere can be said to be like the world of martial arts, then EastSouthWestNorth's Roland is the supreme leader of the alliance who is in a lofty and unmatched position. So please let us pay tribute to you, the leader of our tribe."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch blog blogs eswn media journalism)
• Non-violent Resistance: Google, with Chinese Characteristics
  "Who are you kidding, Mr. Kaifu Lee. This is China. Consciously or not, your talented and motivated employees will learn to take advantage of the amenities. Just as you have to adjust your moral standards concerning censorship in China, you will find them
  (tags: china google chineseinternetresearch)
• News Dissector Blog » Is AlJazeera a Brand AND a Tribe?
  "The fact that a TV network can excite so many people and win their passionate allegiance is a sign that there is still some life in parts of the TV media."
  (tags: tv video aljazeera mideast webcred journalism)
• China will pass US in Broadband Lines by late 2006 - Worldwide Broadband Survey - US Broadband Penetration Breaks 65% Among Active Internet Users - January 2006 Bandwidth Report
  "At its current growth rate of over 90% per year, China will pass the US in total broadband subscribers by late 2006 to become the largest broadband country in the world. The US has fallen to 19th overall in household broadband penetration, and is in dang
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet broadband F2C netaccess u.s.a.)
• $200 Billion Broadband Scandal
  This book documents the largest fraud case in American history
  (tags: broadband netaccess internet)
• Guardian Unlimited Business | Economic dispatch | Gagging for IT
  "China protests loudly, and rightly so, when minor textile products are excluded from entry into the US. Yet when the fastest growing product of all - information - is excluded from China by its government there is hardly a squeak from the White House."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech trade)
• Censorship as a non-tariff barrier to trade | Digital Copyright Canada
  "Supporters of Free Trade policy should support a full spectrum of methods of production, distribution and funding , provide no subsidies or non-subsidy promotion of any single model."
  (tags: trade freespeech censorship)
• Economic Reform Has Not Improved Flow of Information in China
  "Economic reform in China has not produced the loosening of restrictions on the flow of information that many in the United States had hoped to see, according to Carolyn Bartholomew, acting chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commissio
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech)
• John Palfrey :Microsoft's new policy on blogging, censorship, and surveillance
  "Will these policies render Microsoft's stance more protective of civil liberties -- in appropriate contexts -- than that of another company, perhaps one based in that regime? Entirely possible, but so much turns on the application of the policy on the g
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch microsoft surveillance freespeech censorship)
• John Palfrey :Written remarks at Congressional Human Rights Caucus hearing regarding China today
  "We need to come together to figure out how to ensure that these companies and their technologies are indeed a force for greater democratic participation, not pushing against it. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch microsoft yahoo google cisco censorship freespeech surveillance democracy)
• As unrest spreads, China intensifies control of media
  "These are dark days for China’s media as the communist government, increasingly nervous about social unrest, intensifies control over what can and cannot be reported to the public, shutting down newspapers and sacking journalists who question its autho
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch media censorship freespeech democracy)
• A Glimpse of the World: We the People (of China) . . .
  "Recent reported police killings of protestors in the southeast Chinese villages of Panlong and Dongzhou raise serious questions about China’s struggle for a more sophisticated strategy to contain mounting unrest. For now, mass protests don’t threaten
  (tags: china freespeech democracy censorship protest)
• AsiaMedia :: CHINA: Bid to stop Net providers agreeing to censorship
  A Republican US congressman is working on draft legislation to make it illegal for US Internet service providers such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to agree to censorship overseas.
  (tags: china google yahoo microsoft censorship freespeech)
• AsiaMedia :: Surrendering to China's censors
  "the Communist Party never forgets its history -- and is determined to prevent history from repeating itself."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch google microsoft yahoo censorship freespeech surveillance)

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Google Corporate Information: Making Money, this article is so smart. haha It must be written by a computer guy.