I don’t ever post humor[1], and I delete humor videos when they’re sent to me by friends, but this Onion article about China recognizing the appearance of the 12th website cracked me up! Too many rig … [Read more...]
China requires that all new computers contain censoring software
The debate continues around the world about whether computers should be required to blacklist porn and other sites, and now according to a New York Times report China will require pre-installed … [Read more...]
China firewall lockdown again
With the upcoming 20th anniversary (4th of June) of the Tienanmen Square demonstrations (which I followed on television in the US, to the extent that photos were available), is coming up and access to … [Read more...]
Access Denied – Which Countries Filter and Why?
·GlobalVoices ADVOCACY has a page they call the Access Denied Map. On it they track visually, including pop-up annotations, countries that prohibit access to web sites. The thing that made the … [Read more...]
Silence is…
Silence is... well, it's just amazing that a modern industrialized, developing and supposedly participatory country could jail hundreds (or thousands) of dissidents in order to keep them from speaking … [Read more...]