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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 apparently discuss the business opportunities presented by the Great Firewall. I won't get ...

Dave at Mutant Palm has been scanning and translating Chinese tweets (Blogspot -- proxy needed in China) on the Tibet situation from local Twitter clones and comparing them with International ones. It's worth having a look at some of the sentiment zipping around this newest corner of the Chinese Internet (yet one more channel of discourse for the ...

The Wall Street Journal has an article (subscription - alternate links below) that nicely retells the story of the fake photo scandal currently sweeping the Chinese Internet. Taken (and doctored) by professional photographer Liu Weiqing, the photo may not have been intended to become a propaganda showpiece, but it certainly did, featuring widely ...

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 relaxedControversy in Australia, which has announced the implementation of a previously announced measure to censor pornography on the Internet at a ...