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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...
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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...
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In 2007, Imagethief actually forked over 160 RMB so he and Mrs. Imagethief could see Mike Bay's first Transformers movie on the big screen at Oriental Plaza. This was before Imagethief Jr. came along and little things like an evening out or even eating...
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My first post on Green Dam Youth Escort has nearly 16,000 page views so far. This is an unusually large number for a blog where a widely-read post gets somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 web reads. Oddly, almost all of them seem to come from Taiwan. The...
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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...
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Just went to the bank to convert a year's worth of RMB savings to Singapore dollars (my main savings currency), where I was reminded by the vast complexities involved that the renminbi is not freely exchangeable. Here's the box score: Documents required:...
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Brings all new meaning to the phrase "dirty bomb". And what on earth is that guy on the right holding? The latest installment in our unfolding series of strange photos from Chinese anti-terrorism drills. From this series of photos of China's "Great Wall-6"...
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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...
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Apologies for another extended period of radio silence over the last couple of weeks, which period included, as most readers will know, a Significant Anniversary and several odd goings-on in the media. Imagethief has been preoccupied with a visit by his...
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Here are some photos from Andrew's visit to Beijing. It's been a wonderful weekend, hot and clear, with breezy evenings. Today we went to the Blue Zoo, one of the aquariums in Beijing. When we went to the Steinhart in San Francisco at Christmas, Zach...
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Chilling news this afternoon that North Korea may have tested a second nuclear weapon. News reports of this incident came with a photograph released by the North Korean government of the Dear Leader at an Air Force inspection. Long time readers will know...
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A few things spotted over the weekend and worth sharing. Comparing Chinese and US surfing habits Silicon Alley Insider uses Pew and CNNIC data to build a chart showing the differences between the surfing habits of Americans and Chinese . No huge surprises...
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A funny story from an AP journalist who, along with his wife, was quarantined in China for seven days after a two-hour stopover in Cancun: The Mexican stamps in our passports — my wife is Chilean, I'm American — are enough for authorities to pull us out...
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In the latest salvo in the largely hidden war over the right to distribute financial news in China, Xinhua has accused western media of being complicit in the financial crisis. This claim has been made elsewhere, most famously by Jon Stewart in his now...
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A set of new photos of Zach (and in some cases of Olivia) is up now. Mostly stuff taken at mealtimes, and including a good look at Zach's new summertime buzzcut (not shown in the photo below). I'm now hosting the photos on Flickr instead of Facebook,...
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Further to yesterday's post on hardened death-nerds, from Wired's Danger Room blog : How would the American military respond to an attack on its networks? If we take the commander of U.S. strategic forces at his word, they’d nuke those hackers, if need...
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Yes, it's true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They're in your bank account. They're in the Pentagon. They're sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they're completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least...
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Amidst all the gloomy, mainstream reporting on the first anniversary of the earthquake take a few minutes and check out this interesting video from Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang. It's for a project called Afterquake , devoted to producing music remixed...
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It turns out that the plan to have local officials prop up the cigarette market in Hubei has gone up up in smoke. Seems the people were fuming. From China Daily : The order made headlines in major newspapers around the world after being made public, triggering...
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Imagethief has been watching with some interest the resolution of the drama concerning the quarantining of Mexican passport holders, some of whom hadn't even been to Mexico in recent months. Given that my own country, the United States, was only recently...
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We have to hand it to the Gong'an county government in Hubei, which has hit upon a novel approach to expanding the tax base in these straitened times: Order local officials to smoke more cigarettes : Officials in a county in central China have been told...
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After posting my thoughts about Jackie's controversial pronouncements at Bo'ao a couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Nick Mackie, the journalist who actually asked the question that kicked off the whole episode. As Nick points out, the question...
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One of the longest running soap operas involving foreign businesses in China is that of the foreign financial information service providers, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, and such. These companies have been involved in an on-and-off regulatory battle...
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...how do you reply? A: Well, if you're a Chinese government spokesperson you probably rarely pass up an opportunity to bury your positive points under much more quotable anger. James Fallows notes the predictably pyrotechnic response from Chinese government...
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Further to recent salacious reports of sinister Chinese plots to hack into the Pentagon/the White House/NORAD/your refrigerator, some lucid analysis of reporting on the issue from Adam Minter. Adam did a Q&A with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, author...
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