How Dictators Watch Us on The Web

July 2010 Category: Scrapbook

quote: The internet is meant to help activists, enable democratic protest and weaken the grip of authoritarian regimes. But it doesn’t—in fact, the web is a boon for bullies.

A discussion.

Google’s New Approach on China – No Censorship

January 2010 Category: Musings

Google’s had enough, says it will no longer censor search results on its Chinese-language search engine.

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January 2009 Category: Scrapbook

China’s government has accused the country’s leading internet search engines and web portals, including Google, of threatening public morals by carrying pornographic and vulgar content.While Beijing regularly launches web censorship campaigns, the new crackdown is the first in which the government has targeted heavyweight companies such as Google and Baidu, the local rival that leads [...]