links for 2006-03-29

• Detained Chinese blogger Hao Wu
  "I interviewed Wu a few weeks before the police detained him. This was when the debate was raging in the U.S. about Google, Yahoo et.al. and their role in facilitating censorship of China's Internet. Wu was surprisingly upbeat."
  (tags: freehaowu china chineseinternetresearch humanrights freespeech)
• China not giving details about filmmaker
  "Chinese police last month detained a documentary filmmaker who met with an outspoken lawyer and have refused to tell his family where he is being held or on what charges, his sister said."
  (tags: freehaowu freespeech humanrights china chineseinternetresearch)
• Google Joins the Lobbying Herd - New York Times
  "For a company that takes pride in being the quintessential outsider, Google is moving quickly into the ultimate insider's game: lobbying."
  (tags: google)
• » The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other things | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com
  "if you're not going to put them first, they will provide for themselves. A quick search for the right online application and bang, they plug themselves, and the value they create, into someone else's IT system. Not that you were even harnessing much of
  (tags: trust internet humanrights)
• China Confidential: China's Internet Cops on Lookout for Leftists
  "From Marx to Mao, Communist keywords constitute potential red flags in the eyes of the hyper-sensitive e-police--thousands of trained analysts armed with the latest (American made) censor- and spy-ware."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch internet censorship)
• Good Morning Silicon Valley: Go forth and bloviate
  "The freewheeling days of political blogging will roll on thanks to a Federal Election Commission ruling that grants media exemptions to bloggers and other pundits, allowing them to politick online without fear of federal interference. "
  (tags: blogs politics)
• Iran hard-line regime cracks down on blogs
  "Despite the crackdown, most Iranian bloggers say the government is not interested in eliminating blogging. Instead, they believe authorities want to use blogging to further their own goals. Farid Pouya, a Belgian-based Iranian blogger, notes the governm
  (tags: iran globalvoices gv-press)
• Yahoo defends building a firewall for China
  "Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang on Tuesday defended the Internet search engine's cooperation with Chinese censorship of the Web, saying that it was necessary to reach out to new users. "
  (tags: yahoo! humanrights china internet chineseinternetresearch freespeech censorship bullshit)
• Oops! Google accidentally deletes its blog | News.blog | CNET News.com
  "Despite earlier concerns that the site was hacked, Google's mea culpa clears anyone of wrongdoing."
  (tags: google blog)