Archive for the 'China' Category
Perspective: Companies need guidance to face censors abroad
Friday, August 17th, 2007John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain have published a wonderful opinion piece at CNet about how Internet companies struggle with certain “gray zones” of complicity with oppressive regimes and their desire to filter and censor Web content. They try to provide answers to the question “what’s a corporation to do” when confronted with requests that […]
Google Now Just Another .Com Business
Friday, May 11th, 2007Google has finally made the complete transformation. They are no longer some kind of benevolent, altruistic company trying to help people learn and grow by providing access to knowledge online. Now, they’re just one of many .com companies trying to build some software applications and make a buck.
Here’s the story as I see it.
Google started […]
Google Censorship FAQ
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has published an unofficial Google Censorship FAQ where he answers over 35 questions related to Google’s censorship activities. Highlights include:
What does Google censor?
It depends on the country. In Germany, Google censors certain Nazi websites like Stormfront.org, for example. In the US, Google censors sites containing child pornography, Google’s Sergey Brin […]
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Others to Address Human Rights Violations
Saturday, January 20th, 2007An important press release came out this week regarding a coalition of Internet companies, IT providers, human rights organizations, and academics joining forces to address human rights violations enabled by technologies and practices by some of the member organizations, such as providing means of surveillance for regimes like China to identify and jail dissident citizens. […]
Google Celebrates Your Freedom to Read, Unless, of Course, You’re in China
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Leslie Burger, the president of the American Library Association is helping Google celebrate Banned Books Week, taking place this year Sept. 23-30. Her post at Google’s blog encourages us to visit google.com/bannedbooks, where we can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged […]
Wikipedia Defies China’s Censors; Challenges Google
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Wikipedia has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries. Jimmy Wales also challenged other Internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with China’s repressive policies, noting that censorship is:
antithetical to the philosophy of Wikipedia. We occupy a […]
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