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Reporters Without Borders lists repressive regimes

Reporters Without Borders lists repressive regimesWhy isn't Australia on the list?I am shocked that Australia is not on the list as the new Australian Federal Government Labor Party are trying to implement a nationwide filter of the Internet and they actually believe it is a good idea!More details on this...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, AUS, repressive regime, Reporters Without Borders

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Fighting Yahoo's China policies

Lawyer, family of dissidents speak outReporters Without Borders challenges Yahoo execs at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters on Monday. The issue: data Yahoo released to police in China. The activists brought with them video filmed in Beijing of Mo Shaoping, a lawyer for the dissidents, and of the unnamed brother...

Tags: Reporters Without Borders, Yahoo! Inc.

Videos 2006-04-12

Rep. Smith readies bill aimed at companies doing business in China

When Google announced its censor-friendly Chinese website, it unleashed a political firestorm that is still gearing up. None of the Big 3 search companies nor Cisco was willing to turn up for an informational briefing last week but a hearing on Wednesday will not be so easy...

Tags: Reporters Without Borders, Chris Smith, House Subcommittee

Blog posts 2006-02-13

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On eve of Tianamen anniversary, China blocks Twitter, Flickr, Bing

This can't be any surprise. But we will not forget. According to reports, with the 20th anniversary of Tianamen Square China has blocked access to Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Microsoft's new Bing search engine on a massive scale. And the repression goes beyond...

Tags: China, Flickr, Twitter, Huffington Post, Government, Vertical Industries, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Reporters Without Borders lists repressive regimes

The "Enemies of the Internet" â€" according to a Reporters Without Borders report are Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. These countries have all "transformed their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population from accessing ‘undesirable’ online...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Borders Books & Music, Internet, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship

The Global Online Freedom Act, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), would penalize companies who facilitate other countries censoring the Internet. Call it the anti-Yahoo law. "American high-tech firms have produced the technology and know-how that has led to a modern-day information revolution," Smith said...

Tags: Olympic Games, Beijing, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-02

UNESCO backs out as group names Internet Enemies

Today is Online Free Expression Day, a Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) event that was to have been sponsored by UNESCO. But the free speech organization revealed today that UNESCO backed out. We were notified...

Tags: Borders Books & Music, UNESCO, Internet, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-03-12

Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy

Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...

Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-12

With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista "kill switch"

The case for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 just got a lot stronger. When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista's most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista's adoption. Microsoft plans to remove the infamous "kill switch" from...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

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

China rejects U.S. charge it hacked Pentagon

China rejects U.S. charge it hacked PentagonAnd yet...After our pets being poisoned, our food being poisoned, and now this, we continue to send more and more manufacturing jobs over there daily.I hope all those short-sighted CEO's are making enough extra money to buy that next yhacht they drool over, because...

Tags: Vertical industries, Free trade, Pentagon, government

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchersNever mind the horse head George....You're in for it now!This has always had the love stink of Jobs over it. Good for you in showing what has happened.I just hope you're tough enough for the backlash...Be at peace with yourselfToday is a new day,...

Tags: SECURITY, Web, Apple Inc., Maynor

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

State Dept., Internet cos., human rights groups grapple with censorship

Under fire from Congress and the American public, as well as by internal dissension from employees, over their compliance with censorship demands from China and other repressive regimes, the big Internet companies called on the US government to provide some guidance on how to respond to censorship demands, News.com reports....

Tags: Vertical industries, Internet, censorship, government

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Yahoo and Google should not endanger their Chinese users

One of the most powerful images of the 20th Century is "Tank Man" the man that walked out in front of a column of tanks -- a day after the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He walked into the middle of a pedestrian crossing, with...

Tags: Silicon Valley

Blog posts 2006-11-07

Yahoo: Would you work for a "police informant" for the Chinese government?

From the London based The Independent: CHINA Published state secrets Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison after "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities". His crime was to have e-mailed details of the Chinese government's plans to handle news coverage of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Customs agents seizing laptops - no warrants are needed

Business travelers are increasingly having their laptops' content perused - and sometimes even confiscated - by US Customs agents at the border, The New York Times reports. Although much of the evidence for the confiscations remains anecdotal, it’s a hot topic this week among more than 1,000 corporate travel...

Tags: agent, laptop computer, Susan Gurley

Blog posts 2006-10-24

Chinese e-pedia e-Wiki shuts down

The Chinese online encyclopedia e-Wiki, closely modeled on Wikipedia, has shut itself down under heavy pressure from the Chinese government, Reporters Without Borders reports. "We all aspire to freedom, but we live in the embrace of the motherland so we have to be subjected to relevant restraints and cannot...

Tags: e-Wiki

Blog posts 2006-08-10

On the Hill, Sergey hints Google may leave China

Google's Sergey Brin visited Capitol Hill yesterday to lobby for net neutrality legislation and in the process allowed that Google's decision to participate in China doesn't align with the company's much-touted ethics and might be reversed, AP reports. Brin said Google agreed to China's censorship demands only after...

Tags: Sergey Brin, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-07