links for 2008-06-27

• China's Facebook Clones - ReadWriteWeb
  "Indeed the Open Platform is now one of the hottest topics in China. The question remains though: how will Chinese users respond to open SNSs and will any of the local Chinese social networks go global?"
  (tags: china facebook social socialnetworking internet freespeech chineseinternetresearch)
• Tales from the Net » How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech: Part 1
  Written in February, I'm reminded of this in the wake of Charle's Mok's latest post about HK activists getting their accounts shut.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking politics cyber-activism censorship freespeech)
• Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Facebook disabled my account «
  Another old post... in the wake of complaints in HK about the disabling of accounts belonging to political activists
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking cyber-activism censorship)
• Washington Times - OP-ED: Facebook in the Middle East
  "The growing list of Facebook dissidents and cyber-dissidents should not remain in Middle Eastern prisons unnoticed."
  (tags: facebook cyber-activism politics freespeech censorship)
• Vivek Wadhwa: China is NOT the new Silicon Valley - Thomas Crampton
  "While William Bao Bean said in a recent interview that we should Expect More Digital Garages in China, Vivek Wadhwa disagrees, asserting that China is not innovating and has still has not moved beyond copycat status."
  (tags: china innovation internet technology)
• Politics on the web | Blog standard | Economist.com
  "Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them..." The Economist covers the Global Voices Summit.
  (tags: blogging globalvoices freespeech humanrights censorship)
• Internet agency relaxes rules on domain names - International Herald Tribune
  Law Prof. Susan Crawford expresses concern: called it a "sea change" in the institution's approach because the plan could "allow for any government to effectively veto a string that makes it uncomfortable."
  (tags: icann netgovernance domains)
• Nationalist fervor in China is backed by anger - International Herald Tribune
  "China's government, while not notable for public accountability, pays close attention to popular opinion and recognizes that nationalism is a double-edged sword....[it] can quickly turn against any perceived weakness in a leadership that appears to have
  (tags: china nationalism politics)
• Wis[s]e Words: Ceci n'est pas un blog
  re: self-censorship of Dutch Wikipedia "It is disappointing however to see Wikipedia cave in.."
  (tags: wikipedia censorship freespeech)
• Why journalists must learn the values of the blogging revolution | Greenslade | guardian.co.uk
  "the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens. Of course, there should be no distinction between them. But journalists still wish to see themselves as a class apart."
  (tags: journalism journalism2.0 blogging bloggers internet news media newspapers web communities)
• For China's Olympic guests, a not-so-warm welcome | csmonitor.com
  "Fearful of terrorist attacks and of embarrassing protests, the authorities are draping a security blanket over Beijing so thick that many residents fear it will stifle the Games."
  (tags: china olympics)