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ONI Blog: China, and blogs on Filtering
Last week, Chinese blogger Michael Anti gave a talk at the Berkman Center on the world of political activism in China, and its (non) use of Web 2.0 tools. According to Anti, any service that requires a centralized server has limited...
ONI Blog: Blogs on Filtering
Nart Villeneuve takes a look at a recent article discussing U.S. involvement in Burma's recent protests
Rebecca MacKinnon has a wonderful post about the responsibilities placed on private businesses in China
Ethan Zuckerman responds to Rebecca's post
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- Posted on 23/Oct/2007; tagged in China -
ONI Blog: China: Achtung! for the Party Congress
As reports continue to emerge about a massive tightening of media and Internet expression in the lead-up to the 17th Chinese Communist Party Congress, and despite efforts to keep speculative whispering in Beijing (along with negative reporting) to a...
- Posted on 19/Sep/2007; tagged in China -
Four Chinese lawyers have submitted an open letter to Sina.com, protesting the deletion of blog posts by portal administrators and calling for an explanation. Rebecca MacKinnon has posted the letter (translated by Roland Soong) and her commentary on...
BEIJING (Reuters) - "Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has vowed to 'purify' the Internet, state media reported on [Jan. 24], describing a top-level meeting that discussed ways to master the country's sprawling, unruly online population."
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Restored access to the Chinese-language version of Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived, reports The Boston Globe.
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The Chinese-language version of Wikipedia is no longer blocked but remains filtered, reports Noam Cohen of The New York Times. The move comes almost one month after Beijing lifted the ban on the English-language version of the online...
ONI Blog: China: Web censorship report groundless
BEIJING (AP) - "The Chinese government said Wednesday that accusations by a press freedom group that it was one of the worst culprits of systematic online censorship were "groundless" and that its citizens could freely access the Internet."
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On the second day of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), U.S. technology companies came under fire for selling products to China that have facilitated the government's censorship of the Internet and its crackdown on dissidents. While U.S. companies...
In response to media reports, the Internet Society of China (ISC) confirmed that a blogger registration system was being considered by the Ministry of Information Industry, though no official policies have been made. The system would require all bloggers--including...
