links for 2007-04-25

• BetaNews | SEC Says Yahoo Shareholders Must Vote on Anti-censorship Resolution
  "the Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected a request from Yahoo to "omit" a shareholder resolution proposed by those funds, to have Yahoo adopt anti-censorship policies."
  (tags: yahoo! censorship surveillance humanrights freespeech china)
• BetaNews | Yahoo China Loses Piracy Case
  "Yahoo's China arm lost a case in a Beijing court that found it had infringed copyrights by allowing links to pirated music on its search engine." (Interestingly Baidu recently won a similar case...)
  (tags: china yahoo! baidu copyright music internet search)
• BetaNews | Time Warner Says Yes to Sharing Wi-Fi
  "Wi-Fi access startup Fon said Monday it had come to an agreement with Time Warner Cable that would allow customers of the cable provider's high speed Internet access to share their connections publicly via a specialized router available from Fon." Congra
  (tags: FON wifi wireless TimeWarner internet)
• Bloomberg.com: Google to Sell Online Ads on China Telecom Web Sites (Update2)
  "Google Inc. won the right to sell advertising on 400 Web sites owned by China Telecom Corp., helping the company compete with Microsoft Corp. and Baidu.com Inc. in the world's second-biggest Internet market."
  (tags: google china advertising baidu chinatelecom internet chineseinternetresearch)
• Marketplace: VC giant goes to China
  "Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is opening up shop in China. The Chinese government is offering tax incentives in an effort to bulk up the nation's scrawny technology sector, so the timing could be right."
  (tags: china internet venturecapital kleinerperkins investment)
• Google China aplogizes to rival Sohu [ Multilingual Search ]
  "Google offered an apology to search rival Sohu who complained its data was used by Google in a new Internet tool. This recent controversy highlights the intense competition in China’s booming online market where Internet companies invest heavily on sea
  (tags: google china sohu business investment search translation)
• loose wire blog: How to Really Read Blogs
  "Rule #1: A blog isn’t a publication. It’s a person. The thing about blogs is that the most interesting ones are interesting because of the people who write them and the people who read them."
  (tags: blogging blogs)
• Google named most powerful global brand - ZDNet UK
  ...knocking off Microsoft for number one. Interestingly China Mobile is the world's number 5.
  (tags: google microsoft chinamobile china brands business internet wireless)
• Wang Xiaofeng's Naked Chatting
  "Popular Chinese blogger Wang Xiaofeng hosted a face to face meeting to his fans ..."
  (tags: china bloggers blogging wangxiaofeng internet chineseinternetresearch)
• China in Transition: New Internet Publication Regulation to be Drafted
  "Drafting a new licensing rule for online magazines is on the agenda of China’s administration of press and publication, which will require online magazines to obtain license from the government before publishing, China Business News reported."
  (tags: china internet law regulation magazines censorship)
• China replaces top censor
  "China's chief censor has been been removed from his post, state media reported Tuesday, following an outcry this year over a reported decision to ban eight books."
  (tags: china censorship publishing media freespeech)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

" SEC Says Yahoo Shareholders Must Vote on Anti-censorship Resolution"

Since America is a democracy, why doesn't those people who are anti-censorship run for the 2008 Presidential election themselves. Then they can make anti-censorship a law of the land.

Its weird. I have been told America is a democracy. Yet all I have been reading in the news about the 2008 US Presidential election is a race between Republican and Democrat candidates. Seems like in America you must be either a Republican or Democrat to run for President. Not everyone can run. If you try to put your name on the Presidential Ballot, it probably would not even appear on the ballot paper. So it must not be a democracy but a system monopolized by 2 political parties.

If I am not mistaken, even the decision on who is to be the Democrat Presidential candidate is decided upon using PUBLIC MONEY on ballot papers financed with PUBLIC money on a Public financed premise (eg. a high school). A person would walk into a government high school and cast his ballot on who he thinks should be the Democrat Presidential candidate.

Its very weird, because in most other democracies, political parties have to pay for their own internal party elections. They have to print their own ballot papers to conduct their own elections.