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Freenet: An Open Source, Anonymous Voice for Anyone
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| Freenet is a decentralized lash-up of computing resources designed to foil
| censhorship on the Internet, and allow anyone to publish information
| anonymously from anywhere. It may be of particular value to users in
| censorship-heavy parts of the world such as China, where saying the wrong
| thing on a blog can lead to jail time. As you may recall, some of the first
| reports to the rest of the world about the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989
| came from online users breaking Chinese censorship laws.
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http://ostatic.com/161535-blog/freenet-an-open-source-anonymous-voice-for-anyone
Google Grilled on Human Rights
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| Several U.S.-based technology companies have been criticized for their
| activities in China. Google has come under fire for operating a version of
| its search engine that complies with China's censorship rules. Google argues
| that it's better for it to have a presence in the country and to offer people
| some information, rather than for it to not be active in China at all.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145668/google_grilled_on_human_rights.html
Will there be any search engines left that are ethical? Maybe Wikia.
Related:
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/
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
Is Microsoft tinkering with Live Search results?
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| Is Microsoft filtering out from its Live Search results those it
| considers “undesirable” for the company?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1127
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