links for 2006-02-07

• Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
  "A plan to register millions of prepaid mobile-phone users in China will bring new inconveniences to subscribers, including foreigners, but could offer opportunities for foreign-invested telecommunication companies, industry experts say. "
  (tags: china mobile telecom wireless censorship)
• Web Search Faces Privacy and Censorship Issues
  "Opinion: The U.S. government's demands for user information and censorship in China makes it a rough beginning of the year for search companies. "
  (tags: china search google yahoo privacy surveillance censorship freespeech)
• A Capital Idea in Google China
  "The recent events from Jan. 29 to Jan. 30 dramatize how Google's escapades in China have catalyzed a large number of hackers, both of good and bad intentions, and that the contest of wills between the two interests is now only just beginning."
  (tags: china google hacktivism censorship freespeech search)
• From China to Denmark, media lessons | csmonitor.com
  EDITORIAL: "Web giant Google and incendiary "Muhammad cartoons" have more in common than 2.7 million search hits that phrase produces. Google - which self-censors in order to do business in China - and the toon tumult point to a need for smart sensitivity
  (tags: china google censorship freespeech)
• Can Blogs Revolutionize Progressive Politics? -- In These Times
  "In 2006, the biggest question facing blogs and bloggers is: Will their ascendancy empower the American people—in the broadest sense of the word—or merely add to the clout of an elite online constituency?"
  (tags: blogs internet media politics democracy)
• Wi-Fi sharing about to get investment - Feb. 6, 2006
  "Aiming to increase access to the Internet, particularly for people away from home, Google, Skype and other leading Internet investors Sunday announced a $21.5 million investment in an innovative new Internet access network called Fon."
  (tags: FON wireless wifi)
• Google to Washington: Are you helping free speech? - InformationWeek
  "Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo told Washington last week that they'd like their government to go bat for them and help them take a stand against censorship in China. The response so far: Do it yourself. "
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google microsoft yahoo)
• MiamiHerald.com | 02/06/2006 | Internet companies concentrating power
  "Connoisseurs of monopoly need to shift their attention to the Internet, where we're on the brink of a concentration of media control that a few years ago would have been unimaginable. Consider this: Roughly one-fifth of the human race, the 1.3 billion pe
  (tags: yahoo microsoft google internet media censorship freespeech privacy surveillance monopoly)
• Google This: Washington Post
  "Even if the United States actually favors free expression in China, Mr. Hu might be excused for not believing it."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch humanrights freespeech google yahoo microsoft censorship news)
• Internet Lions Turn Paper Tiger in China - New York Times
  "And what if — as a mark of good faith for being permitted to do business in what any rational observer has to admit is now the most tantalizing Internet and technology market on the planet — an executive from each company were required to assist, man
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech google yahoo microsoft)

Comments

[danny bee]

rebecca,
from here in taiwan, when i try to access google.cn just for fun to see how it works, after i type in those letters, the computer automatically transfers me to google.com.tw in taiwan only. i cannot get the google.cn from Taiwan. why is this?

[danny bee]

It does not work from Taiwan, at least not on my computer at an email cafe. Story here?