Watchdog: Beijing Threatens Free Speech
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| A Beijing city regulation clamping down on people who send text messages
| that "spread rumors" or "endanger public security" is a threat to freedom of
| expression, a watchdog group said Monday.
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| China Human Rights Defenders, an international network of activists and
| rights monitoring groups, said the recent regulation on text messages "raises
| serious concerns over the restriction of freedom of expression in China."
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http://news.theage.com.au/watchdog-beijing-threatens-free-speech/20071225-1ivr.html
10,000 new standards to quench thirsty
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| The country will compile 10,000 new standards to meet the standard vacuum in
| certain fields next year. Meanwhile, some 11,000 outdated national standards
| will be revised, the Standardization Administration chief Liu Pingjun said,
| according to today's People's Daily.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-12/21/content_6339957.htm
VICS Rejected as National Standard of China Real-Time Traffic information
Service
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| The once-overwhelming VICS system of Japan eventually may not find its place
| in the China market. Tongyan Qi, key propeller of China real-time traffic
| information services and chief of the State Traffic Information Service
| Workgroup, sets forth in a panel discussion on NaviForum Shanghai 2007, the
| largest international navigation event organized by China government, that,
| though trial use of the VICS system is underway in Guangzhou and Dalian, it
| will not be used as the standard for China real-time traffic information;
| China will formulate its own standard instead.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,245878.shtml
Related:
Open source protester crashes speech by Bill Gates at Chinese University
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| Gates, who is very popular on Chinese campuses, had just finished a
| speech at Peking University and was handing out prizes to students
| when a Chinese man walked on stage and unveiled a banner with "free
| software, open source" written in English on it.
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http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/apr/20/open_source_protester_crashes_speech_by_bill_gates_at_chinese_university
Yahoo Betrays Free Speech
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| For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet’s liberating power,
| Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers
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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
|
| [...]
|
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists
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| Smith sponsored the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prohibit
| U.S. Internet companies from cooperating with repressive regimes on censoring
| the Internet and using Internet user account data to track down and punish
| pro-democracy activists.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815950-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists
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| Terms of the deal are secret, but Yahoo has reached settlements with two
| Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the company
| provided to the ruling Communist government.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2031243&from=rss
Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China
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| A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on
| the company's cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist
| who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its
| online edition.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216579.html
Yahoo helped China falsely imprison dissident
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| U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
| said on Oct. 16 Yahoo misled his panel at a 2006 hearing about the
| company's role in providing the Chinese government with information
| that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for a decade.
|
| [...]
|
| "Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false
| information to Congress in early 2006," Lantos said in a statement.
| "We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to
| account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved
| untrue."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2199220,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
Yahoo in China human rights case
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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
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