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US web stranglehold challenged
News The Paris-based advocacy group Reporters Without Borders last week called reform proposals alarming and asked: "Do we really want the countries that censor the internet and jail cyber-dissidents to be in charge of the online flow of information? [30 Oct 2006]
Cracked: The Great Firewall of China
News The firewall, which uses routers supplied by Cisco, works in part by inspecting web traffic for certain keywords the Chinese government wish to censor, including political ideologies and groups it finds unacceptable. [04 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 11
Comment That's because there are government officials who monitor and censor what goes out. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. [20 Jun 2006]
Craigslist, Wikipedia founders grapple with big issues
News In the end, however, the biggest applause of the day went to Wales, who said, in response to a question about Google's recent expansion into China and its decision to censor its Chinese site, that Wikipedia would not follow the search engine giant... [14 Mar 2006]
Google attacks "cavalier" Justice Department
News chose to censor their search results for Chinese users. Google's opposition raised eyebrows last month after it stood up to the US government but capitulated to censorship demands from China's ruling Communist Party. [20 Feb 2006]
Yahoo! speaks out on Chinese censorship
News Earlier this year, rival search engine Google came under fire for launching search and news websites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there. has called for greater understanding of the difficulties companies face in... [13 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Ethics before profit
Comment Now this all sounds very fine until we start to consider that it was only recently that our own Home Secretary was urging new laws to censor the "glorification of terrorism". Indeed, it appears that politicians care more for the citizens of China... [07 Feb 2006]
Microsoft feels the heat in web censorship row
News It's another thing to become an agent of a government and censor an entire blogger's work. Microsoft had previously acknowledged it had filtered certain words, including "democracy" and "freedom", out of its MSN page in China. [01 Feb 2006]
Leader: Google astride the Great Firewall of China
Leader There are two ways we could look at Google's decision to censor its service for use within China, in accordance with the wishes of the country's controversial authorities. The first is to accept this is the cost of doing business and Google as a... [25 Jan 2006]
Google slammed for censoring its Chinese sites
News Google said on Tuesday it would launch versions of its search and news websites in China that censor material deemed objectionable to authorities there, reasoning that users getting limited access to content was better than no access. [25 Jan 2006]
China: Web censorship gives US pause for thought
News It's also suggested US corporations come up with a joint plan for how to handle censorship requests from foreign governments, including refusal to censor terms such as "democracy" and "human rights". According to the China security review... [13 Jan 2006]
Bloggers get a helping handbook
News Free-speech advocate Reporters Without Borders has published a guide for blogging in China, Iran and other countries that strictly censor the web. China has jailed the most, with a total of 62 sent to prison, the group said. [23 Sep 2005]
Microsoft's 'freedom and democracy' row in China
News The drama is the latest in a spate of moves by the Chinese government to censor certain areas of the internet. Microsoft may have banned the words 'democracy' and 'freedom' from the Chinese version of its MSN website. [13 Jun 2005]
Microsoft, Sun 'contribute to Chinese human-rights abuses'
News Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Cisco are among major IT vendors slammed by Amnesty International for contributing to human-rights abuses by selling technology to the Chinese government that is used to censor the internet. [02 Feb 2004]
Singapore labels Web sites to protect citizens
News Backing away from the more draconian curbs placed on the Internet in China and Vietnam - where governments censor Net content using gateways - Niac recommended that local Internet service providers regulate themselves using the internationally... [28 Sep 1998]
