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Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites
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| The government of Canada has used strong-arm
| tactics to shut down two parody websites
| criticizing Canada's poor environmental
| policy, taking down 4500 other websites in the
| process.
|
| The two websites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-
| gc.ca", are "directly connected to a hoax
| which misleads people into believing that the
| Government of Canada will take certain actions
| in relation to environmental matters," wrote
| Mike Landreville from Environment Canada in an
| email to the German Internet Service Provider
| (ISP) Serverloft. "We trust you appreciate
| the importance of avoiding confusion among the
| public concerning Canadian governmental
| affairs and that you will assist us in
| preventing this hoax from spreading further."
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http://theyesmen.org/canadareacts
Court orders three H-1B sites disabled
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| A New Jersey judge has ordered the shutdown of
| three H-1B opposition Web sites and seeks
| information about the identity of anonymous
| posters.
|
| On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court
| Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register
| domains and provide hosting services --
| GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable
| Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, to
| disable the three sites, ITgrunt.com,
| Endh1b.com, and Guestworkerfraud.com. Facebook
| Inc. was also ordered to disable ITgrunt's
| Facebook page.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142806/Court_orders_three_H_1B_sites_disabled
Russia to prosecute YouTube police whistleblower
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| A former policeman who accused senior officers
| of corruption in a series of video blogs will
| himself face prosecution for abuse of office,
| Russian investigators said on Monday.
|
| Former police major Alexei Dymovsky became a
| household name in Russia earlier this year
| when he used YouTube to appeal to Prime
| Minister Vladimir Putin to tackle corruption
| in the police force.
|
| A criminal case will be brought against
| Dymovsky for "fraud committed by a person
| using his official position," the Prosecutor-
| General's investigative committee said in a
| statement. It gave no further details.
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/russia-to-prosecute-youtube-police-whistleblower-20091229-li04.html
Wikileaks suspends ops to launch pledge drive
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| The whistle blowing site is taking time out
| until 6 January to ask for support in many
| forms, not just donations. Wikileaks is
| appealing for help from volunteer coders,
| offers of free legal assistance and hosting
| support as well as cash donations. The site
| has promised not to accept corporate or
| government finance in order to protect its
| integrity.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/29/wikileaks_appeal/
Recent:
Chinese domain crackdown targets smut sites
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| Chinese regulators have started to request
| business licences and paperwork before
| allowing future .cn domain registrations.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/15/china_domain_regs/
Microsoft Claims It Fixed Bing's Chinese Search 'Bug'
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| Microsoft claims it fixed a controversial
| "bug" that made Bing Image Search deliver
| uniformly pro-Chinese-government results
| to politically sensitive queries inputted
| in Simplified Chinese.
|
| Bing came under fire on Nov. 20 from New
| York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who
| accused Microsoft of "craven kowtowing" to
| the Chinese government by offering
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" in
| response to Bing searches in Simplified
| Chinese for terms such as "Tiananmen" and
| "Dalai Lama."
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Claims-It-Fixed-Bings-Chinese-Search-Bug-350985/
Microsoft Talks China Outsourcing
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| Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) has outsourced more
| than $100 million of business to China in
| 2009, qq.com reported December 3 citing Wang
| Ying, Senior Director of Microsoft China R&D
| Group's China Outsourcing Center.
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http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=11588757
Boycott Microsoft Bing
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| If you search a term on Bing that is
| politically sensitive in China, in English
| the results are legitimate. Search
| ×âÅTiananmen×â and you×ââll find out about the
| army firing on pro-democracy protesters in
| 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you
| also get credible results. Conduct the
| search in complex Chinese characters (the
| kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on
| the whole you still get authentic results.
|
| But conduct the search with the simplified
| characters used in mainland China, then you
| get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is
| especially true of image searches. Magic! No
| Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama
| becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers
| are villains, not victims.
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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/
NYT's Kristof: Boycott Bing
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| Kristof's objection, outlined in a blog post
| this afternoon, centers around his
| observation that searches conducted using
| simplified Chinese characters in Bing return
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" not just
| in China but around the world. He questions
| Microsoft's claim that the results are
| determined by search algorithms, not its
| corporate policy. Here's an excerpt from his
| post.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/nyts_kristof_calls_for_bing_boycott.html
Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries
Bing Search Tainted by Pro-Microsoft Results
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| The first of the search results about the Microsoft Word question linked to a
| page about how expensive Manhattan is (Is Microsoft competing with Manhattan
| now?). The top responses to the "Is Microsoft Evil?" question were, get this,
| a link to a New York Times story about whether or not Google is considered
| evil, a link about proxy servers, and a link to a story about Microsoft being
| charitable. Wow.
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http://advice.cio.com/shane_oneill/bing_search_tainted_by_pro_microsoft_results
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