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Nike: behaving badly

kelly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:15:40 +0000

According to the Technically Incorrect blog at CNET, Nike, by asking the Chinese gov’t to reveal the name of the person who posted to a yahoo msg board and accused to company of having something to do with Liu Xiang’s, a famed Chinese hurdler, withdrawal from the event is behaving like a

granny who’s just had her handbag stolen by a tiny teenager and asked a big, burly policeman to find the man who took it? The company’s actions serve only to highlight the issue more, when letting a sleeping blog lie might have allowed for this little conspiracy theory to waft its way into the annals of obscurity.

And what does Nike think, the Chinese gov’t will simply waggle its finger at the olympic conspiracy theorist, all the imprisoned Chinese bloggers certainly may beg to differ.

Chinese Internet censorship: An inside look

kelly — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:15:30 +0000

James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, has experienced “The Great Firewall of China” firsthand, an experience people from around the world will share this summer when the Olympics comes to that country. Based in Beijing, Fallows has researched the underlying technology that the Chinese use for Internet censorship, and he explained it in a recent article titled “The Connection Has Been Reset.”

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Increased Cyber-attacks against Tibetan NGOS

kelly — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:36:57 +0000

Slashdot: The SANS Internet Storm Center reports about an increasing number of sophisticated and targeted cyber attacks against Tibetan NGOs. These attacks appear to be related to attacks against other anti-chinese groups like Falun Gong. ‘There is lots of media coverage on the protests in Tibet. Something that lies under the surface, and rarely gets a blip in the press, are the various targeted cyber attacks that have been taking place against these various communities recently.

China blocks YouTube as protests spread in Tibet

kelly — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:06:13 +0000

One BoingBoing reader writes: ” I am visiting Beijing on business, and staying at a hotel that caters to Westerners. There have been reports that China was loosening controls on the media ahead of the Olympic games, in order to give visitors the impression that the media is unrestricted, but that is not the case in the last day. While watching CNN in my hotel room, the station goes dark during the top-of-the-hour news flash on the riots, then returns when the synopsis of “what’s to come” is given about other stories, and then goes dark again while the coverage switches to Lhasa.”

Yahoo: We didn’t realize they would be jailed…honest

kelly — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:23:24 +0000

Yahoo China released identifying information and the content of emails to the Chinese government leading to the arrests of some of its users (Al Jazeera has the full story). One journalist has been jailed for 10 years on charges of political dissidence. For information on a petition and how to boycott Yahoo go here.