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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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I don't care that China has more net users than the US

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:46 AM by will
Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet Read More...
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Good PR for American tech firms providing quake help

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:08 AM by will
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help Read More...
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Why do Americans like to hate on poor Jing Jing and Cha Cha?

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they Read More...
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Shouldn't China be the number one Internet nation on Earth by now?

Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:06 AM by will
In January, CNNIC, the organization that administers the Chinese portion of the Internet, released its 21st Statistical Survery Report . This was a big deal because it included the startling fact that at the end of 2007 China had a whopping 210 million Read More...
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Tom Lantos, Yahoo's antagonist on China issues, dies

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:17 PM by will
From CNET : Tom Lantos, the Democratic congressman and Holocaust survivor who used his moral authority to pressure Yahoo and other American Internet companies about their behavior in China, has died. Lantos famously --and perhaps a bit unfairly-- referred Read More...
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China Mobile knows where you are -- should you care?

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 5:19 AM by will
One of the hallmarks of bad China journalism is reacting hysterically when China is found to be doing things that everyone else is doing. Unfortunately, it happens rather a lot, presumably because hysteria shifts more units than thoughtful, reasonable Read More...
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A few stories to start the new year

Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:56 AM by will
I am ringing in 2008 by being officially too lazy to write anything original. But here are a few interesting stories from the past few days that are worth a read: And I thought Aussies were relaxed Controversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation Read More...
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CNET 29: Could Lenovo be sexy?

Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:21 PM by will
Could Lenovo be sexy? September 15, 2006 I have to confess that my respect for Lenovo is growing. When they first purchased the personal computer division of IBM (announced in December 2004 and completed in May 2005), I didn't give Lenovo much of a chance Read More...
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Deconstructing HRW's report on China

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:39 AM by will
I have a lot of time for Rebecca MacKinnon . She has worthwhile things to say about China, and she's been an energetic and outspoken advocate for a more open media and Internet environment in China and a greater degree of accountability from the foreign Read More...
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Bill Gates and Hu in the gaze of the mighty Thought-o-Tronic

Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:03 AM by will
Regular readers will know that Imagethief in his spare time recently invented a device called the Mighty Thought-o-Tronic that can read the thoughts of people in news photographs. I use this device sparingly because it has the potential to be extremely Read More...
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Yahoo's Yang on operating in China

Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:15 PM by will
A week after Google's Sergey Brin went on the record about his company's involvement in China during Google's recent analyst conference, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has done the same. Like Brin, Yang has chosen a professionally oriented forum --in this Read More...
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Google's Brin on operating in China

Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:48 PM by will
Having recently suggested that it was important for the founders of US Internet companies at the heart of the China/Censorship issue to address it themselves, I was interested to see that Segey Brin of Google has in fact done so. He didn't do it in direct Read More...
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Shock news: Censorship is good for business

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 8:54 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to see in this morning's China Daily a report from a seminar held earlier this week by the Internet Society of China in Hainan. From the article, the annual meeting of the Internet Information Service Commission was a shining Read More...
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Monday PR Blog: The disappointing silence from the top

Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:32 PM by will
It's been nearly two weeks since representatives of Cisco, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google testified before the House Subcommittee on Human Rights about their various entanglements with China. As expected, after blowing hot in the run-up to the testimony, Read More...
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