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While Google's negotiations with Chinese authorities are still pretty much behind closed doors, government officials are beginning to make it very clear that they will not accept any sort of wavier of the country's strict online censorship laws on Google.cn. Google hasn't acted on its decision to stop ... |
12 March 2010
11:04 GMT |
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The Internet is changing all the time, not that this is a surprise to anyone, but some of the recent trends are beginning to be worrying. While the Internet started out with the promise of free access to information, free expression and speech, it is now becoming more and more regulated and even censored. The efforts... |
12 March 2010
09:35 GMT |
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Google made some huge waves in January when it announced that it no longer wants to run a censored search engine in the country. There were those that questioned the company's motives but overall, the move got wide support in the US and internationally. Since then though, not much has happened, nothing has happe... |
23 February 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Undeterred by internal and external criticism, Italy is moving ahead to make the internet a lot less open. The plan is to make video-hosting sites abide by the same regulations as TV broadcasters, meaning the government would be able to hold these sites accountable for what the users upload. A draft decree is set to... |
4 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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Twitter doesn't really play on the same level as Google but says it admires the tech giant for its stance on China. The microblogging service is all about open communications, not the biggest topic on China's agenda, or at least that what cofounder and CEO Evan Williams is saying. As such, the company is l... |
28 January 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Google's public fallout with China is still a matter of hot debate and both parties seem reluctant to take a definitive stance. Google's decision to stop censoring results on Google.cn may seem drastic, but the tone of the post is still a bit subdued and leaves the door open to negotiations. Chinese officia... |
21 January 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Google caused an uproar last week when it announced that it might pull out of China if it couldn't start operating an unrestricted and uncensored search engine in the country. There has been a lot of speculation as to why Google would make such a move ranging from sanctifying Google to much more cynical views s... |
19 January 2010
05:39 GMT |
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The recent Google China debacle has raised the issue of Internet censorship again and made more people aware of the restrictions governments like China's enforce on its citizens. And many probably felt lucky that they didn't live in a country that limits their access to information and the Internet in parti... |
18 January 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Google caused quite an uproar last week when it announced that it intended to stop censoring search results on its localized version in China. Its decision is commendable, yet, even as it takes up this fight, Google censors its results in a number of countries, including some European ones, to abide to the local law... |
18 January 2010
04:13 GMT |
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Net neutrality may be a topic of hot debate in some parts of the world, most notably in the US, but in other regions the Internet is facing worse threats than throttling YouTube videos, downright censorship is being advocated and we're not talking about China or other countries notorious for their abuses, the c... |
16 December 2009
09:05 GMT |
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The Japanese localization of Infinity Ward's controversial yet ridiculously popular Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 came with a bit of a snag. During what could easily be considered the plot-maker for the game's story, the famous airport massacre scene received a rather inaccurate translation. The original li... |
9 December 2009
08:21 GMT |
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The other day, of two major networks, only one came out as a winner for taking the “risk” of having Adam Lambert over for an interview and a mini-concert early in the morning, despite his performance at the American Music Awards 2009. That network was CBS that, in extending the invite to Lambert, showed A... |
26 November 2009
04:31 GMT |
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The U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk have sent an official letter to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), asking them to cancel and rethink the proposal that requires PCs sold in the country to come with a con... |
27 June 2009
05:24 GMT |
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Google is under attack again by Chinese officials and, now, they've blocked the company's global search page Google.com, as well as the popular online email manager Gmail. Both services were unavailable to Chinese Internet users starting at 9 p.m. local time, but were still accessible through external proxi... |
25 June 2009
06:45 GMT |
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With all the focus on Iran lately and its attempts at blocking many social networking services and other sites, it's easy to forget the biggest state that regularly dabbles in online censorship and the arbitrary blocking of web sites, namely China.While the recent blocking of Twitter, Flickr and the banning of c... |
20 June 2009
14:07 GMT |
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Since she broke on the music scene, Katy Perry has been deemed anything from a breath of fresh air to a daring fashion icon and the much needed dash of originality that the industry had been dying for. In Saudi Arabia, Katy Perry is seemingly also potentially offensive for daring to show her tummy and legs on the cov... |
21 April 2009
10:10 GMT |
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Grand Theft Auto is one of the most popular video game franchises out there, with fans all across the world still playing a lot of titles from the series made by Rockstar. The latest iteration, Grand Theft Auto IV, took the whole gaming industry to a new level in terms of realism, gameplay and story, collecting a lot... |
20 February 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Most of the Chinese translations of Obama's inaugural acceptance speech were censored by the Communist Party of China, and information deemed sensitive, such as attacks on communisms and the freedom of speech, was completely removed from all broadcasts. China's move came as a surprise to no one, especially ... |
21 January 2009
08:16 GMT |
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On Monday, Chinese authorities warned Google and Baidu, the two largest search engines operating in the country, that they were passable for retaliation from the Communist Party if they continued to promote explicit content on their portals. The former announced that it was in strict compliance with the nation's... |
6 January 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has decided that the use and abuse of LittleBigPlanet cannot continue, and has decided to issue a document offering players who use the level editor a very clear set of rules that are designed to make sure that no more levels need to be deleted.There are more than 84,000 levels crea... |
14 November 2008
05:26 GMT |
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I've played a good 20 hours of Fallout 3 and I can't shake the feeling that if I were a Japanese citizen, I'd miss out on quite a lot of what this game has to offer. It seems that Bethesda has decided to make quite significant changes to the Japan bound version of the game in order to be sure it does ... |
13 November 2008
04:07 GMT |
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It seems that the government of California is aiming to resurrect an anti violent video games law. The primary aim of the bill is to make it illegal for everyone under 18 to buy or to rent games that “appeal to a deviant or morbid interest of children and are patently offensive to prevailing community standards... |
29 October 2008
04:51 GMT |
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One of the problems with a big number of online environments is that’s almost impossible to regulate content. The Xbox Live is notorious for the amount of inappropriate comments that it features and similar aspects are not lagging far behind. But all this could be coming to an end, as far as Microsoft is c... |
21 October 2008
04:43 GMT |
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As the Beijing Olympics closed yesterday, this is as good a time as ever to draw the line and analyze the bad and good of what was the first edition of the Games to have global digital coverage. Although international forums said that giving a communist country the right to host such an important event could have rep... |
25 August 2008
06:07 GMT |
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The Turkish cyberspace is dealing with serious problems regarding censorship. For the past two years ago, several video hosting websites have been banned. Their creators were accused of infringing upon the integrity of different public persons or institutions. YouTube itself was banned a couple of times, but it'... |
18 August 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Although the International Olympic Committee, along with human rights organizations, has pleaded for free access to all Internet resources during the Beijing Olympics, some restrictions that were instituted before the games are still preventing journalists, and people in general, from accessing certain webpages. Repo... |
11 August 2008
04:13 GMT |
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The Chinese Government assured international media representatives and human rights organizations that they would have full access to the Beijing Olympic Games and all the information they needed. In defiance of this statement, many online resources that foreign journalists need to report from China have been restric... |
31 July 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Technologies that enable people to stay in touch with major sports events, as the Olympic Games are, have been available for decades. This year's situation - with the Olympics taking place in a communist country, implies certain special measures to ensure the liberty of speech is not infringed upon. Although Chi... |
29 July 2008
05:18 GMT |
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What has already happened in other countries around the world, including here China, could also happen in Australia, as the local government wants to provide a subsidy to the country's ISPs in order to install filters and restrict access to certain online content, CNET Australia reported. The Internet Service Pr... |
14 May 2008
03:47 GMT |
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If China decides to censor a local website, nobody gets too amazed because such cases occur every once in a while and people have started getting used to it. However, a similar matter was spotted a few days ago and, at this time, nobody can say for sure if the one that imposed the censorship is actually Google or the... |
30 April 2008
02:12 GMT |
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Russian government agencies are reported to enforce the registration of any Wi-Fi-enabled device used across the country. The imposed restrictions look strikingly similar to those enforced by the Chinese government, given the fact that Russian Wi-Fi users would have to fill loads of paperwork then await for their app... |
17 April 2008
02:59 GMT |
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Google's video sharing service YouTube got banned on Monday after an anti-Islam clip called Fitna was published on its official website, drawing protests from its Indonesian users. Last week, the Indonesian government set a Monday deadline to YouTube's administrators in order to allow them to remove the cli... |
11 April 2008
04:38 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company, Google, is now encountering new problems regarding the imagery provided by Google Earth, as the Chinese authorities seem to be ready to ban lots of mapping services including Google's. What's interesting is that the Chinese officials labeled these solutions as 'illegal&... |
28 March 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Compromise is all this life is about for most people. Meeting your better half mid-way in every crisis that might result in tension between you two is the way to resolve everything, and the same goes for any negotiations being held between two companies, when one doesn't have the upper hand. There's only on... |
21 March 2008
04:41 GMT |
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Like I reported earlier, censorship is so present in China before the Olympic Games, almost like it was running for gold. Now, it hits everywhere that has something, even remotely, to do with more people than, say, one. The forums are starting to feel the cold, chilly breath of censors down their threads, and even u... |
19 March 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Tired of reading about the Chinese government censoring the media and then going halfway for the compromise? Well, you're not going to enjoy knowing that it happened again, and in a period that was supposed to show the world that all is not as bad as dissidents make is sound like. The first pointer that the gove... |
19 March 2008
05:13 GMT |
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The Denver International Airport has set its Wi-Fi service to block out sites that have potentially racy imagery. The decision was taken because the management considers that it's better to deal with infrequent complaints about access, than handle angry parents whose children might be exposed to pornographic con... |
6 March 2008
07:00 GMT |
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The heavy YouTube viewer must have freaked yesterday. For an entire hour, Google's video sharing service was down for no obvious reason like a scheduled maintenance and with no announcement of any sort. Mayhem started on forums as people around the world began reporting the same thing, like Xeroxed: "Can anybody... |
25 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Finland has a very strict non-child pornography rule that makes all the sense in the world. At least their heart's in the right place, because their mind seems to be wondering about. Over 1,700 legal websites are being censored by the authorities, and among them lapsiporno.info, a site who was used by its owner ... |
19 February 2008
13:06 GMT |
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It's not as red and marked with the hammer and sickle as you might have thought, but it also wouldn't win the "people living there's award" when it comes to freedom of speech. It's an ongoing cha-cha dance, with one making a move (the government) and if the reply is moderately strong, it will back... |
6 February 2008
08:19 GMT |
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I knew I liked the idea of communism for a reason. It is the one political doctrine that I've gone through and that actually lets you take away what is basically free and allowed to everybody and say "you can't have that" without having to worry for serious consequences. How cool is that? Different points o... |
4 January 2008
10:16 GMT |
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The above is paraphrasing a song from System of a Down, "Toxicity". And with that out of the way…You do like the happy Asian people that seem to always be wherever some karaoke event is bound is happen, don't you? Well you're in for a treat with this YouTube video, as middle-aged executives are seen moving ... |
26 November 2007
10:39 GMT |
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A brilliant man, Eddie Izzard, once said that Great Britain managed to conquer its mighty empire "with the cunning use of flags." The technique was to show up and tell the natives that their country was claimed in the name of the great British Empire:"I claim India for Britain!""You can't claim us, we live here.... |
14 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that counters anti-Semitism, took the stand on a recent conference and brought forth examples of anti-Jewish hate material that was and still is freely available on the Internet. The means used to find this material? Google, of course.The Israel Subsidiary Director of the Mo... |
13 November 2007
05:31 GMT |
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Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders made a special survey concerning the Internet censorship in China, a country which is doubted to be the most restrictive one when it comes to online content. According to the two organizations, the Chinese government is the only country which hired thousand... |
15 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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In the recent period, the Mountain View company was kept in the spotlights because the European Commission criticized it for the privacy of its products. Following these complaints, Google started a powerful campaign to improve its image and debuted the Privacy Blog that is meant to keep the customers up-to-date with... |
25 June 2007
03:07 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo has gotten into some new troubles in China after it was reported that its online photo sharing service Flickr in unavailable for most of the local users. There is no official statement to indicate that Yahoo is facing a new ban in the country but, after the company's representative de... |
11 June 2007
05:41 GMT |
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Google Earth, the company's downloadable application that allows you to view satellite maps and other imagery, was often criticized because it managed to display private images or sensitive locations from all over the world. This time, the case is somehow different because the search giant's employees tried... |
30 March 2007
09:10 GMT |
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