Censorship

Google vs. China

January 12, 2010

in Censorship, China

Google Says No More Cens*rship! Looks like a battle is heating up between Google and China. In response to a cyber attack, which led to the compromise of Chinese dissidents’ gmail accounts, Google is no longer censoring their search engine on Google.cn and is considering leaving China altogether. FYI, Chinese Internet users largely ignore Google, [...]

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Back Behind the GFW

June 1, 2009

in China, Expat Life, Hong Kong

That would be the Great Firewall of China to those of you not in the know.  Curious thing about Hong Kong, although supposedly sovereign Chinese territory, it exists independently with a gloriously uncensored Internet. For a week I enjoyed unfettered access to all that is good and subversive on the Web, access which I promptly [...]

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Aren’t You Glad You Don’t Live in North Korea?

November 7, 2006

in Blogging, International Affairs

It’s election day in the US, or at least it will be in a few hours. Instead of talking about politics, I want to return to the topic of Internet censorship that I brought up a few posts ago. Reporters without Borders is organizing an online protest against Internet censorship. They’ve highlighted the world’s worst [...]

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Score One for the Bloggers

November 2, 2006

in Blogging

Good News! Mahmood’s Den is open and unblocked! This was not an outright win for bloggers and anti-censorship, however, because Mahmood was able to get his site back up and running because he removed some of the so-called offensive content (the stuff on election scandals). BUT, he was able to meet with the Information Ministry [...]

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And Now For Something Completely Different

October 31, 2006

in Blogging

That is my last Monty Python reference, I promise, and besides, I have something serious I want to talk about right now. Web censorship. I encountered this everyday in China. For instance, I could never access any blogspot blogs, many news sites, and most especially, Reporters Without Borders. (An organization which teaches journalists and bloggers [...]

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