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IGF2009: #UNfail?
A medium size poster, in English, promoting the 2nd ONI volume "Access Controlled" book was removed by the Internet Governance Forum security forces, because of a phrase on it saying:
The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's famous "Great Firewall ...
Chinese twitterers' expectation to Obama's China visit
The U.S president Barack Obama has just arrived at Shanghai and started his first official visit to China. In the past two weeks, Chinese twitterers have been using the tag #obamacn to pose questions and comments and one of their major concerns is about the Great Fire Wall.
Please help ...
China’s Internet: Two Media Declarations
As if to complement one another, two like-minded media declarations were posted on the internet only two days apart from each other, one on Oct. 8 by a group of 15 Chinese intellectuals, another by the Chinese government’s Xinhua News Agency during a World Media Summit in Beijing on Oct. ...
China: Blocking Twitter's third party applications
In the past few days, Chinese twitterers reported that the Chinese censor has blocked a number of popular Twitter's third party applications.
Since Fanfou, the Chinese micro-blogging website, has been ordered to shut down earlier this year, many bloggers moved to Twitter to spread their ideas. Net activists believe that ...
China: Internet human rights declaration
2009 is a political sensitive year in China. Apart from the 60th anniversary of PRC, it is also the 20th anniversary of Tienanmen Massacre and the 50th anniversary of Dalai Lama's exile. Moreover, natural disasters, social unrests and ethnic conflicts come one after the other. Social and political control began ...
China: Be aware of QQ!
The Chinese IT company Tencent, operator of the popular QQIM service, will start an international version of QQIM application soon. Fons Tuinstra from China Herald will help to moderate its business section. The English version can be downloaded from here.
Now that MSN and twitter are blocked, some see that it ...
China: Blue Dam activated
Beijing government has recently required all Internet service providers (ISPs) and data centers to install a software called Blue Dam in all their servers. According to today's Taiwan Apple Daily News, the Blue Dam has to be activated by today (September 13) or the companies have to subject to punishment. ...
