links for 2007-09-24

• China censors Internet users with site bans, cartoon cop spies
  "The virtual police may be Orwellian, but the fact that they cannot stop the spread of river crab images and related protesting messages marks the beginning of the end of the Communist Party's ideological and propaganda control over Chinese society."
  (tags: china censorship freespeech internet humanrights blogs blogging web2.0)
• Preston: Owners are to blame for press decline, not the net « Online Journalism Blog
  “The internet may be the deliverer of the coup de grace but it is not to blame for the decline of newspapers.” Instead, he blamed “inertia, fatalism, and cost-cutting,” combined with social changes.
  (tags: journalism newspapers business news media internet)