#1 2009-05-01 05:28:43
Finally, some halfway decent news.
A study published in February by Rebecca MacKinnon, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong, determined that much blog censorship is performed not by the government but by private Internet service providers, including companies like Yahoo China, Microsoft and MySpace.
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#2 2009-05-01 12:19:57
choad wrote:
Finally, some halfway decent news.
A study published in February by Rebecca MacKinnon, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong, determined that much blog censorship is performed not by the government but by private Internet service providers, including companies like Yahoo China, Microsoft and MySpace.
It's nice that China's been able to contract its censorship work abroad, providing job opportunities to people around the world.
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#3 2009-05-01 12:46:47
Taint wrote:
choad wrote:
Finally, some halfway decent news.
A study published in February by Rebecca MacKinnon, who teaches journalism at the University of Hong Kong, determined that much blog censorship is performed not by the government but by private Internet service providers, including companies like Yahoo China, Microsoft and MySpace.
It's nice that China's been able to contract its censorship work abroad, providing job opportunities to people around the world.
I'm sorry, but that's bullshit. If the government makes you put certain restrictions on your blogs as a condition of doing business in the country, that's still government censorship.
Edit: Not your statement, Taint, but the conclusion of the study.
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#4 2009-05-01 12:59:59
Tojo.... you have been jumping up and down and shouting at you laptop alot lately and we are getting concerned!
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#5 2009-05-01 13:04:28
Alas, it's true. My non-HS life is bleeding through, and I don't self-censor here. It will pass.
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#6 2009-05-01 13:44:28
Worried your learned word isn't getting out to the Chinese masses?
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#7 2009-05-01 17:40:08
I always figured that places like China had some big 'Net Nanny' type programs that operated at the ISP level, blocking out unapproved or 'heretical' sites. With the assistance of companies like Google and Yahoo, this also means delisting the same list of sites from the SERPs.
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#8 2009-05-01 17:52:31
pALEPHx wrote:
I always figured that places like China had some big 'Net Nanny' type programs that operated at the ISP level, blocking out unapproved or 'heretical' sites. With the assistance of companies like Google and Yahoo, this also means delisting the same list of sites from the SERPs.
It's very easy to block IPs and IP ranges (or to redirect them to safe sites) at the infrastructure level. You don't need additional software to do it, you just change the entries in the routing tables.
You can do this on your home computer.
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#9 2009-05-01 17:59:20
jesusluvspegging wrote:
Another mention of Spybot's S&D. I've long recommended the product, but don't need now that I'm on a Mac. All the 'antiviral/malware detecting' software for this OS takes forever to work and, predictably, finds nothing, despite increasing alarm that botnets have finally figured out how to penetrate a Mac's inherent security features and uncommon coding.
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