Wired News reports that Reporters Without Borders has labeled Yahoo the "strictest" censor in China: Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said their tests showed that Yahoo.cn blocked a higher percentage of politically sensitive results than Google.cn or the beta version of…
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Brin says Google compromised principles in China
First, Google starts to censor results in China, making a mockery of its core values. Then they try to explain it doesn't really matter, since no one is using the censored version of their website. But now that they've cowed…
Google to Make Ads look More like Organic Results
Looks like Google is again taking steps to blur the visual distinction between paid and organic search results. A reader at Google Blogoscoped posted an e-mail recently received from Google about his/her AdSense account: We're writing to let you know…
Is Google.cn Still Evil if No One Uses It?
The answer is yes. In yesterday's stockholder meeting, Sergey Brin noted that Chinese users haven't yet flocked to the censored Google.cn service, noting that usage of Google.cn is just a fraction of one percent of Google searches in China, while…
Boston Globe: Online Plagiarism Strikes Blog World
The Boston Globe has a story today about plagiarism in blogs. I've previously commented on blog plagiarism - blogiarism - in terms of stealing content in order to drive readers to your site to capitalize on advertising revenue. The Globe's…
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Google on Transparency
At a panel on Internet Censorship in China at the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference, Google's senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin a set of principles to help Google cope with censorship in China and elsewhere: Disclose censorship to users. Google's…
Google Sued for Child Porn
Google is being sued for profiting from child pornography: Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged in a complaint filed Thursday that Google has been taking in billions of dollars by allowing child pornography and…
Does Rupert Murdoch Own your MySpace Content?
The Register reports on shifting MySpace terms of service which could mean that content posted by teenagers today might show up on the front page of the New York Post 10 years from now. Originally, the MySpace ToS granted the…
Don’t be Hypocritical: Google Upset at MSFT’s Default Browser
According to the New York Times, Google has been expressing concerns about the fact that Internet Explorer 7’s search box will ship with Microsoft’s MSN Search as the default search engine: Google, which only recently began beefing up its lobbying…
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Jack Balkin: What is Access to Knowledge?
Jack Balkin has posted his opening remarks at the Access to Knowledge conference at Yale Law School. In them, he makes three points about the theory of access to knowledge: First, Access to Knowledge is a demand of justice. Second,…
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