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Predictably for Skype, the mainstream coverage of the TOM.com keyword trapping scandal has grown, with associated reputation damage for the former naive idealists at Skype and their parent, E-Bay. (Browse examples at ZDNet, Reuters, The Register, GigaOM, Financial Times, the BBC, AFP, and god knows where else.) Among the mainstream coverage so ...

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 focuses on Internet, free-speech and censorship issues, released evidence that TOM-Skype, the joint ...

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 world can communicate and share ideas,'' says Ronald Deibert, director of the University of ...

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 Hong Kong's Apple Daily were being restricted. BOCOG media director Sun Weijia initially ...

...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 term. Astroturfing is a PR tactic which can be used for either political or commercial ends; ...