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Clearing the fog around Google China reports

Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 5:49 AM by will
A quick pointer to an excellent pos t at the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog, which busts several myths concerning Google in China that have been widely repeated in the past few days, including those concerning the health of Google's business Read More...
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Google detonates the China corporate communications script

Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:31 PM by will
Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google's bombshell blog post , which went up in the middle of the night early this morning our time. Read More...
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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:51 AM by will
Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered Read More...
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Remember that whole Xinjiang thing?

Posted Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:49 PM by will
A quick pointer to Josh's "Xinjiang: Far West China" Blog, which has an interesting update on the state of Internet access in Xinjiang. Events of the past few months have pushed Xinjiang out of mind, but it seems the situation there is a ways from what Read More...
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MIIT says reports of Green Dam Youth Escort's demise are greatly exaggerated

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:29 AM by will
Or so, at least, claims the China Daily : Despite a last-minute delay in implementing Green Dam internet-filtering software, China's authorities and its PC manufacturers said Wednesday they expect the tool will end up on new computers. One day after the Read More...
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Green Dam Youth Escort vanishes faster than predicted

Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:51 AM by will
Well, it appears that Imagethief was overly optimistic about Green Dam Youth Escort's longevity. My original prediction was that it would be allowed to die and in six months no one would remember it. Apparently six weeks would have been closer to the Read More...
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Communication is the real lesson from the Green Dam Youth Escort fiasco

Posted Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:10 AM by will
So Green Dam + Youth Escort blocks images based on skin tone. But what if I like Afro-porn? These, and other important questions are arising now that serious analysts (which is to say, people other than me), have had some time to dig into the capabilities Read More...
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Why I'm not in a tizzy over China's new Internet filtering software

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 11:34 PM by will
Another day, another censorship-related thing to get bent out of shape about here in China.This week it's the dreaded "Green Dam Youth Escort" internet filtering software, which goes right to the head of the nominee list for the annual Imagethief "branding Read More...
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You know your property management company really cares when...

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:19 AM by will
...they intercept your newspaper because they think it's "cult propaganda". From Danwei's Joel Martinsen, a case study from the "you couldn't make it up" school of media management: A major Xinjiang company has come away with a black eye after going up Read More...
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Rebecca MacKinnon's conversation with Anti-CNN

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:05 AM by will
Take a moment and read Rebecca MacKinnon's post on her recent interview with the founders of Anti-CNN , the Chinese website that sprang up in the wake of what was seen by many Chinese people to be biased coverage of the unrest in Tibet in March, 2008. Read More...
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Because online video in China is just too much damn fun...

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:37 AM by will
Danwei has translated SARFT's new set of guidelines for online video providers in China. Yet another muddy step is taken in the great quagmire of who really owns regulation of online video. Go have a read. My conclusion: SARFT is doing its very best to Read More...
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What the "grass mud horse" means and doesn't mean

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 12:40 AM by will
Warning : This post contains vulgarity in an academic context. Those with weak constitutions are advised to stop reading and visit this wholesome site instead. The New York Times has an interesting story about Chinese Internet users putting a stick in Read More...
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a cadre...

Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:08 AM by will
It's well worth your time to go and read the two articles that David Bandurski has written for the indispensible China Media Project on Yunnan deputy propaganda chief Wu Hao. In the first post , Bandurski gets under the hood of Wu's "citizens' investigation" Read More...
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Improved talking points for Chinese media's Obama-edits

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:05 AM by will
Imagethief was interested to see that someone at the regular Foreign Ministry press conference actually bothered to ask FM spokeswoman Jiang Yu about Chinese media censorship of Obama's inaugural remarks about fighting communism (a question apparently Read More...
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Is the latest round of Chinese Internet purification a sign of things to come?

Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 5:22 AM by will
Imagethief enjoyed a lovely two-and-a-half weeks in the US over Christmas and New Year, during which I paid very little attention to what was happening in China. At my peril, it turned out, since I got back to find that Bullog had been harmonized , Zhang Read More...
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