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May 2008
Cisco internal memo: Chinese censorship and surveillance are "opportunities" - Boing Boing
by mbertier
(via)
The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans' technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world.
April 2008
February 2008
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
by mbertier
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One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Wikileaks has upset the Chinese government enough that they are attempting to censor it, as is the Thai military junta. Wikileaks is now under attack from a censorship effort by a California court.
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October 2007
Andres Serrano - Vandalism - Art - New York Times
by lukeslytalker
A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night.
September 2007
July 2007
香港沒有成人？──flickr過濾與淫審
by Blog-you
(via)
引文：目前，全世界只有四個地方被flickr過濾，分別為德國、星加坡、南韓和香港，過濾系統分三級，safe（安全）、moderate和safe off（沒保障）。這四個地區以外的用戶，不用登入就能看到所有類別的相片，而用戶亦可以於自己的賬戶選擇不同的搜尋級別。德國的用戶，因為聯合投訴flickr的過濾系統，成功爭取查看 safe和moderate級別的權限；但其他三地，則只能看 safe類別的相片，當你進入其他類別時，視窗會彈出「This photo is unavailable to you」（大家不妨試按「hyperlink」一文的照片連結，首先它會要求你登入，然後就會說你不能看這照片）。最大問題的是，這三個地區的用戶，是不能選擇觀看 moderate級別的相片。
May 2007
January 2007
Arab World and the Internet
by jfb1138
While use of the Internet expands in the Arab world, so do Arab governments' efforts to control it. Control is impossible, but it can make it harder to get where you want to go, do what you want to do.
December 2006
November 2006
Internet Enemies and Corruption Index 2006
by sabbah
Yesterday, Transparency International published the annual report, where it showed that most Arab states are among worst ranked (UAE - 31, Qatar - 32, Bahrain - 36, Oman - 39, Jordan - 40, Kuwait - 46, Tunisia - 51, Lebanon - 63, Saudi - 70, Egypt - 70, Morocco - 79, Algeria - 84, Mauritania - 84, Syria - 93, Libya - 105, Yemen - 111, Sudan - 156, Iraq - 160, Palestine - n/a,
Somalia - n/a)
Today, Reporters Without Borders published the list of 13 Internet enemies. Guess what? In this list, our beloved Arab states score 4 out of 13. The list includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia.
September 2006
Art by Michael Dickinson
by Mal Burns
This is the new site for Micheal Dickinson's montages and other work.
Michael Dickinson censored
by Mal Burns
A report on the internet censorship of Michael Dickinson's art.
Slashdot | China to Control Reports of Foreign News Agencies
by mbertier
Where a foreign news agency violates the Measures in one of the following manners, Xinhua News Agency shall give it a warning, demand rectification within a prescribed time limit, suspend its release of specified content, suspend or cancel its qualifications of a foreign news agency for releasing news and information in China, on the merits of each case.
