John Kennedy

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21 July 2008

China: Bloggers take stand against web activist's arrest

Written by John Kennedy · China

Following his apprehension last month as he was pitching in with the earthquake relief in his native Sichuan province, web activist Huang Qi was this weekend formally arrested for “illegal...

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15 July 2008

China: Locking down IDC server rooms for the Olympics

Written by John Kennedy · China

While Chinese webmasters wait to see if the Olympics will bring tightened reins on the internet as is widely expected, more specific documents have recently appeared online which suggest part...

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5 July 2008

China: Details on Olympic internet crackdown appear

Written by John Kennedy · China

Beijing's Olympic Plan for the mainland China-based portion of the blogging and BBSing netosphere is starting to take shape. While on one hand it's coming coated in talk of self-restraint...

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4 July 2008

China: Facebook blocked? Not quite!

Written by John Kennedy · China

Just as pictures from Hong Kong's annual march for democracy began appearing on Facebook, a segment of the users of the social networking site in mainland China began blogging their...

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1 June 2008

China: Zeng Jinyan asks for harassment to stop

Written by John Kennedy · China

Zeng Jinyan wrote last week on her Twitter account that the heavy surveillance she and her daughter are under has been stepped up as June 4 approaches, and now includes regular physical harassment.

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22 May 2008

India: Google assists police in Orkut user's arrest

Written by John Kennedy · India

With the arrest of Orkut user Rahul Krishnakumar Vaid last weekend, Google has joined Yahoo! on the list of multinational American internet companies that have enabled foreign law enforcement authorities...

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21 May 2008

China: Political blogger arrested, computer confiscated

Written by John Kennedy · Advocacy

Guo Quan, co-founder of China's Netizen Party and litigant in a recent lawsuit against Yahoo!, had his computer confiscated over the weekend and is now halfway through a ten-day detention...

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