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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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