Posts Tagged with ‘Human-Rights-Watch’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]