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Rebecca MacKinnon's interesting analysis of China's blog censorship

Posted Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:25 PM by will
If you're interested in the specifics of how online censorship works --and doesn't work-- in China, especially with regard to blogging, check out Rebecca MacKinnon's post and presentation on her recent research into the topic. She and her students posted Read More...
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Analyzing Skype's statement about the China keyword scandal

Posted Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:31 AM by will
Predictably for Skype, the mainstream coverage of the TOM.com keyword trapping scandal has grown, with associated reputation damage for the former naive idealists at Skype and their parent, E-Bay. (Browse examples at ZDNet , Reuters , The Register , GigaOM Read More...
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Lessons from Citizen Lab's China-Skype revelations

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:44 AM by will
If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab , which Read More...
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A bit twee

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:40 AM by will
From a typical "Great Firewall" article from The Canadian Press, this delicious quote on the Power of the Interweb: "We face so many shared global problems right now, you need some kind of global communications medium through which citizens around the Read More...
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Olympic complaints: Po-faced denials hitting their limits?

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:00 PM by will
From the Sydney Morning Herald : Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that sites such as the BBC in China and Read More...
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Don't conflate censorship with astroturfing...

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 7:47 AM by will
... says Paul Denlinger at China Vortex , reacting to Thomas Crampton's recent online video discussion with Oiwan Lam on the 50 Cent Tribe: The biggest difference between astroturfing and censorship: astroturfing is a PR term and censorship is a political Read More...
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