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- Microsoft capitulates to Chinese censors
- Free-speech activists are up in arms after hearing the news that Microsoft, capitulating to Chinese officials, shut down the blog of a Chinese citizen critical of government policies. Microsoft runs a web portal with almost 5 million boggers tapping away. The site applies advanced filtration technology to censor certain words;...
- Tags: Chinese Censors, blog, CHINESE
- Blog posts 2006-01-08
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- Hacker ships tool to circumvent China's Green Dam filter
- So any bets on how long before the U of M's IT system is attacked... ...from China?Was thinking the exact same thing.I applaud their effort especially after China pirated US software to create the Green Dam product.It won't be long before the retaliations begin.nobody saw that coming, did they?If hackers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, SECURITY, tool, Green Dam, government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Censorship.exe? China reportedly requires PC makers to include content blocking software
- Censorship.exe? China reportedly requires PC makers to include content blocking softwareThis applies to Red Flag?Does this apply to Linux PCs?What do you expect?Do you really expect an oppressive country to have the same rules of commerce as a free country?So you can either stand by your ideals and not make...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, content blocking software, Censorship.exe, blocking software, PC company, software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-08
- Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship
- Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorshipThey're much worse."As for human rights the US is no better either."The fact that we can have this conversation at all is a testament that we are far better at human rights. The Chinese people can't even talk about this."Police in the US abuse...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, censorship, YouTube Inc., life form
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Inside China's Golden Shield
- "The connection was reset." That's the message Firefox gives me when I try to connect to a link posted by a Chinese commenter to this blog. A similar error message is the title of a fascinating piece by James Fallows...
- Tags: China, Error Message, James Fallows, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Government, Productivity, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- So the net routes around censorship? Tell it to China
- China has succeeded in blocking the flow of news about its crackdown on Tibetan protesters â€" at least in China. While Western news outlets are getting information out to the rest of the world, many Chinese remain in the dark. (This photo is of Tsezin Totsang (a 32-year old male...
- Tags: China, Censorship, Tibet, Internet, Blogging, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Uh oh. Yahoo's Alibaba is antsy about Microsoft; Good luck getting to $40 a share
- Uh oh. Yahoo's Alibaba is antsy about Microsoft; Good luck getting to $40 a shareInteresting. The hostile takeover is in itself reducing the value of Yahoobecause partners are running away, employees are leaving, etc. In the end, MS is able to buy Yahoo cheaper because of the damage that THEY...
- Tags: Business structures, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-16
- Chinese dogowner's lawsuit may signal resistance to censorship
- It might be a sign that Chinese citizens are increasingly unwilling to submit to government censorship. A dog owner is taking on government officials by filing suit over their censorship of his blog post, The Washington Post reports. "It is so funny that people...
- Tags: China, Lawsuit, Censorship, Dog Owner, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- A look inside Chinese censorship
- How does China maintain its pervasive system of Internet censorship? A report from Reporters Without Borders, entitled "China: Journey To The Heart Of Internet Censorship," reveals some details of how the bureaucracy clamps down on dissent, controls the flow of information and distributes propaganda, Information Week reports. Much of...
- Tags: China, Purpose, Information Week, RPF, Internet, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Skype blames Patch Tuesday PC reboots for outage
- Skype blames Patch Tuesday PC reboots for outageI smell something rotten here.Ummm, log on attempts kept the entire system down for two days? Don't think so...Doesn't ring trueWhilst I could happily accept that millions of machines attempting to login to the service simultaneously may have had the effect of...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Quick Books, Now IT, Skype Technologies S.A., outage, Patch Tuesday
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eye
- Privacy International pokes a stick in Google's eyeUntrustworthy?Personally, I don't trust it. They appear to have *preemptively* singled out how Google is worse than Microsoft - why? They take offense to things that don't matter to me (what is wrong with seeing whether someone has read an e-mail...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., Privacy International
- Discussion threads 2007-06-10
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowers
- Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowersThis site has to be the worst idea of the year.Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Wiki, moderator, chinese page, government
- Discussion threads 2007-02-07
- Does the planet need only five computers?
- Does the planet need only five computers?take a holiday....these people need to get more time off. They're living in dreamland already. I wouldn't trust IBM with my projects and data now, never mind anyone ''larger''.Refactoring...Before anyone goes crazy about the lack of IT jobs this could mean...I've worked at a...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, Desktops, computer, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Pulitzer Prize winner tests Chinese censors
- Pulitzer Prize winner tests Chinese censorsHow ironic...At a time when so many in the US are pushing for more control over information, there is chastisement for government control over information elsewhere in the world. Yay government! Of the people by the people and for the people my ass....
- Tags: Vertical industries, Pulitzer-Prize, government
- Discussion threads 2006-06-22
- Collaborative Google Q & A: Call for questions
- As I indicated in "Google Q & A: What questions do you want to ask Google?", Google will have the opportunity to provide more information on how it works next week when it holds a Q & A with financial analysts and investors to “offer more opportunities for the investment...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-27
- Why China censors Wikipedia
- Why China censors WikipediaInformation censorshipThere is no such thing as harmful information. The only information that could possibly be harmful is the information that you don't get......why the chinese sysops can still manage wikipedia in Chinese despite block?"But on sensitive questions of China's modern history or on hot-button issues, the...
- Tags: Wiki, Vertical industries, moderator, government, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-02-22
- Why China censors Wikipedia
- The Washington Post today features a fascinating account of citizens building the Chinese Wikipedia and why the government chooses to censor. The trouble centers naturally around Tiananmen Square, but really it's about the trouble that top-down governments have with the grass-roots collaboration that Wikipedia offers. A few excerpts: ...
- Tags: Chinese Wikipedia, Wikipedia
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
- VOA-funded Circumventor software allows Chinese an endrun around censors
- VOA-funded Circumventor software allows Chinese an endrun around censorsWonderful IdeaI think this is a wonderful idea. A way to keep the chinese people informed on how their own goverment is blocking information that it deems 'wrong' to view. Something similar to what the United States is doing. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, endrun, VOA-funded circumventor software, software
- Discussion threads 2006-02-20
- Google to feds: Back off
- Google to feds: Back offPrivacy matters when trade secrets are at riskSounds like privacy ONLY matters when trade secrets are at risk. When it comes to China, then privacy and sensorship doesn't matter.Why all the heel dragging Google?The Feds are the ones that are going to view your data,...
- Tags: Google Inc., trade secret, privacy
- Discussion threads 2006-02-17
- VOA-funded Circumventor software allows Chinese an endrun around censors
- NPR features an interview today with Bennett Haselton, programmer of Circumventor software, which allows users in China to access blocked sites via a compliant machine based outside of China. When you install the software it generates a URL Chinese users can use to use your machine as...
- Tags: Bennett Haselton, Circumventor
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
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