Posts Tagged with ‘china’

Over this week we've been listening to the discussions about international media demanding that the Chinese government rethinks its position on blocking a number of websites that were (and most certainly still are) considered by the government as hazardous to their citizens and their states of mind. What we see now is that under this pressure China is simply forced to lift the restrictions to a certain extent - the extent that can be viewed as acceptable by [...]

Cloud computing is one of the latest buzzwords to circulate through social media circles. Cloud computing could be the key to a true global society and economic growth, but international politics is holding it back. Defining cloud computing to someone who doesn't live and breathe the heady air of the Web 2.0 bubble can be difficult. Explaining why it is affected by international borders and political issues demands an understanding of what cloud computing is.
Cloud computing is [...]

If Web 2.0 is about social media and user-generated content, then with it comes a certain responsibility. Forget making sure that bloggers get paid a fair wage or getting your fair share of venture capital; the most important part of Web 2.0 is the ability to share information.
If you believe that is true, then you believe that Web 2.0 information sharing is a global obligation. I know that I do, and am always pleased when I see technology that [...]

New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) spoke today in Washington, DC at a hearing and compared the present issues regarding freedom of information on the Internet to IBM's alleged participation in the Holocaust.
IBM is obviously not loving the press coverage that reminds everyone of the lawsuit of 2001, which ended up being dropped so that it wouldn't hold up a restitution agreement that was already being agreed to by German companies. IBM has long maintained that their German division was [...]

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]

Yahoo may have rolled over for China, but when it comes to former SFBC International Inc. Chairman and COO Lisa Krinsky, they aren't so obliging, and the Sixth Appellate District Court in Santa Clara County, California backed them up, overturning a previous decision.
Krinsky was suing Yahoo in an attempt to get them to turn over the identity of "Doe 6" (a pseudonym assigned to replace the actual user name, which included an expletive) and nine other posters who made "scathing [...]

The issue of the “Great Firewall of China” is nothing new, but it becomes an issue when you have legions of foreign journalists and tourists arriving for the Summer Olympics this summer in Beijing. The Olympic organizing committee expects 20,000 foreign press members alone to arrive in a country where the Internet is locked down, stripped of most foreign news sites, links to human rights groups, and anything the government deems “subversive.”
Wang Hui, head of media relations for the organizing [...]

One unpopular prime minister, John Howard, was ousted in Australia’s November ’06 election for his unwavering support for Operation Iraqi Destruction. His replacement, Kevin Rudd, is now under fire not two months into his first term for an initiative which would enact the filtration of the nation’s entire Internet backbone, much to the apparent anger and dismay of its citizens.
The filter’s purpose? To put a halt to rampant nakedness. Literally.
It’s been just a short while since word first crept about [...]

If you somehow managed to keep up with the goings on of the broad international news space throughout 2007, you know there’s one topic in particular that received copious amounts of attention. No, not that Mexican repellant them paranoid repubs and loose-limbed dems signed off on. Nor the tinderscape that was/is southern California. Darfur? Nope. (Too bad, though. It sure would’ve been good to see the American media juggle that ball a tad bit more.) Pakistan? Nah. The year was [...]