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links for 2007-05-31

• CCTV: Baidu Search Engine Fraud Exposed? - ChinaTechNews.com - The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News, Information, and Commentary on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Telecom, and Wireless Industries
  "CCTV reports it now has evidence that Chinese Internet search engine Baidu.com (BIDU) is engaged in dubious activities."
  (tags: china baidu search ethics chineseinternetresearch internet)
• Baidu Accused Of Violating User Privacy - ChinaTechNews.com - The Technology Source for the Latest Chinese News, Information, and Commentary on Internet, Computers, Digital, Science, Electronics, Law, Security, Software, Telecom, and Wireless Industries
  "Seeing that one of his emails was exposed online, a lawyer from Hangzhou is taking Chinese search engine provider Baidu.com (BIDU) and an unnamed email service provider to court, asking the two defendants to make an online public apology to him for 30 co
  (tags: baidu search chineseinternetresearch internet business ethics privacy)
• EastSouthWestNorth: How Did The Obscene Articles Tribunal Get Hijacked?
  "Hong Kong is not the USA. We are a very secularized society and we should respect the values of all the religious groups. But we cannot let any one organization impose its values on all of society. What we see right now is that a certain group of peop
  (tags: hongkong freespeech censorship)
• Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt | CNET News.com
  "Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter."
  (tags: livejournal censorship freespeech sex blogging sixapart)

links for 2007-05-30

• Suing the Net Nanny
  "a Shanghainese man is suing his Internet connection provider China Telecom because his U.S. hosted website was blocked, and China Telecom will not or cannot explain to him why..."
  (tags: china chineseinternetresearch law gfw censorship freespeech internet)
• 草莓 : 草莓周刊（第11期）：五月诉讼季，癌症赛自杀，激流口水战
  "GFW 终于面临诉讼，当然目标只能暂时是中国电信。无论结局如何，这都是非常重要的一步..."
  (tags: china gfw internet law censorship freespeech chineseinternetresearch)

links for 2007-05-29

• World Public Opinion - World Publics Think China Will Catch Up With the US—and That’s Okay
  "Majorities around the world believe that China will catch up with the United States economically. It’s a prospect that leaves most of those polled—even Americans—unperturbed."
  (tags: china)
• Global Voices Online » Internet Censorship Law Proposal in Israel
  "The proposed law requires from the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block adult content-based sites (sexual, gambling and violence) from children. The ISPs will require some biometric means of identification for adults, in addition to a personal pass
  (tags: israel censorship internet freespeech globalvoices)

links for 2007-05-27

• The blogger's self-discipline pledge
  "While the draft doesn't break new ground in the realm of Internet regulation, it is significant for two reasons. First, the Chinese government appears to have abandoned mandatory real name registration — at least for the time being — and is offering
  (tags: china blogs blogging chineseinternetresearch freespeech realname anonymity)

links for 2007-05-26

• …My heart’s in Accra » Global Voices wins Knight Foundation News Challenge
  "We’re going to invite people throughout our network to suggest new projects that would introduce citizen media to broader audiences, inviting in people from rural areas, people who aren’t experienced computer users, people from outside the early adop
  (tags: globalvoices)
• Global Voices Online » Rising Voices, Helping the Global Population Take Part in the Global Conversation
  "Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities that are currently underrepresented on the conversational web."
  (tags: globalvoices)
• Cool uses of Google Maps - CyberJournalist.net - Online News Association - Great Interactive Storytelling
  "Lately a number of sites and developers have been tapping into Google Maps to create great new tools. Any of these ideas would be fantastic on news sites..."
  (tags: journalism maps news programming google googlemaps newmedia education)

links for 2007-05-24

• Experiencing the Great Firewall of China (by Jeremy Zawodny)
  "Wouldn't it be educational if instead of simply being blocked, one was directed to a page the explained what the fuss was about?"
  (tags: gfw china censorship internet freespeech)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Which freedoms do we want online?
  "The ONI report only looked at official, state-sanctioned filtering, and it did not consider the situation in the UK or US where most controls are imposed by companies trying to protect their reputation or achieve competitive advantage."
  (tags: internet censorship freespeech business bsr)

links for 2007-05-23

• MediaChannel.org - Al Gore: The Assault On Reason
  "Whereas television often suppresses public debate, Gore believes that the Internet encourages it."
  (tags: internet media democracy citizenmedia)
• The internet's fading promise Becky Hogge - openDemocracy
  "It is the people for whom the internet held so much promise - the dispossessed, the under-represented and the over-burdened - who are slowly seeing that promise starting to fade."
  (tags: censorship internet freespeech humanrights circumvention)

links for 2007-05-22

• Swedish company offers new passports for computers to surf the Web
  "a service - now in beta testing - that would allow computer users to shop online for national identity codes in a process known as "country shifting.""
  (tags: hacktivism internet freespeech copyright sweden)
• Global Insight // China and India Will Lead Growth in the Mobile Market by 2011
  United States Will Remain Largest Market by Revenue
  "China and India will remain the world's growth engine for wireless services, accounting for 60% of the 1.2 billion predicted new mobile subscribers over the next five years...China will also outpace the other 19 markets in terms of broadband growth.."
  (tags: china wireless mobile broadband business internet chineseinternetresearch)

links for 2007-05-21

• Murdoch extends his net to China | World | The Observer
  "As tycoon launches version of MySpace, human rights activists fear it will be abused by censors "
  (tags: china myspace murdoch internet censorship freespeech humanrights)
• Very begginner: A practical lawsuit against China internet censorship
  "Here I will tell you about a legal suit that could greatly change the situation of internet censorship in China. I even hope to improve the Chinese Constitution."
  (tags: censorship law china internet freespeech humanrights)
• Joho the Blog: Violate copyright? $150,000. Violate free speech? $0.
  "We need to stop giving the world's Viacoms business incentives for violating our right to speak freely."
  (tags: dmca copyright viacom freespeech ip)

links for 2007-05-20

• Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds - International Herald Tribune
  "With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion, according to a new acade
  (tags: internet censorship oni freespeech humanrights)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Global net censorship 'growing'
  "The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests."
  (tags: internet censorship oni freespeech humanrights)
• Internet Filtering Rises Worldwide, Study Finds -- Online Censorship -- InformationWeek
  "The study predicts a rise in more subtle forms of filtering, such as political Web sites made inaccessible during election periods."
  (tags: internet censorship oni freespeech humanrights)
• China Web2.0 Review » » Lifesterblog: Somewhat Like a Vox Chinese Version
  "Lifesterblog, founded by Edmund Wong, is a newly launched Hong Kong-based blogging service provider, which targeted Hong Kong and Mainland China users."
  (tags: hongkong china blogging web2.0 lifesterblog business)