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Westerners need self-reflection before criticizing China
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| The West seems to be annoyed by a series of
| events: Chinaâs cyber attacks on Western
| computer networks, disputes with Google,
| crackdowns on human rights activists,
| execution of a British citizen, and its
| unhelpful role ranging from the climate
| change talks to Iranâs nuclear program. The
| list goes on. Pundits point to the
| increasing threats posted by an
| increasingly self-confident China.
|
| But before going on criticizing China,
| letâs view the matter from another angle:
| The Westâs response to Chinaâs economic
| reform and opening. It plays an important
| part in fuelling Chinaâs self-confidence,
| one of the key themes discussed in posts by
| Chinese scholar Zhu Xueqin (æåå) on BBC
| Chinese Web and Lu Di (èç) on
| Bullogger.com.
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http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/02/06/westerners-before-criticizing-china-some-self-reflections-are-needed/
One month later, Google still censors China search
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| From the department of premature
| congratulations: One of China's best-known
| artists and activists just spoke out in
| support of Google's "decision" to stop
| censoring search results inside the world's
| most populous nation.
|
| In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece
| headlined "Google Gives Us Hope," Al Weiwei
| also said two of his Gmail accounts were
| breached by unknown intruders and messages
| were automatically "transferred to an
| unknown address." He said that even as the
| internet was promoting greater political
| participation, Chinese authorities were
| working hard to stifle this possibility.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/google_china/
Iran to shut down Google email service: report
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| The Iranian government plans to permanently
| suspend Google Inc's email service in the
| country, the Wall Street Journal reported
| on its website on Wednesday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61954C20100210
Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown
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| Australiaâs drive to protect its own
| population from the horrors of the internet
| may be starting to have knock-on effects on
| the surfing habits of its neighbour, New
| Zealand - some websites are no longer
| accessible in NZ via Aussie ISPs.
|
| A Reg reader wrote to tell us: "NZ surfers
| being routed via Optus routers in Oz have
| been blocked from NHL.com, and
| peopleofwalmart.com along with all
| 'Gamehouse' social games on Facebook.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/walmart_australia/
Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want Rights To Link, Format-Shift
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| Conservative Lord Ralph Lucas is using the
| Digital Economy Bill to wade in to the
| debate over whether aggregators can freely
| link to online newspaper material.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-digital-economy-bill-lords-want-rights-to-link-format-shift/
Digital Economy Bill: Govt Rejects Format-Shifting, Right-To-Link Requests
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| The UK government politely refused some of
| the boldest proposed late changes to the
| Digital Economy Bill, as the House Of Lords
| finally finished debating the bill on
| Tuesday night.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-digital-economy-bill-govt-rejects-format-shifting-right-to-link-request/
Candidates 2010
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| I've written on the forum a little while
| ago, outlining the selection process I
| envisage introducing, partly to help me
| work that out, and partly to give the
| chance for member feedback. Now I'm in a
| position to announce that we will be
| putting the first potential candidates
| forward for ratification by the party
| membership, after which they will be
| declared as prospective parliamentary
| candidates for PPUK.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2010/feb/8/candidates-2010/
German Government Steps Away from 2009 Filtering Plan
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| The German government declared its
| intention to not continue with the Internet
| filtering law which was passed in 2009 to
| block child pornography online.
|
| Since the former government, made up of a
| coalition of GermanyÂs two biggest parties,
| the social democratic SPD and the
| conservative CDU, passed the law in
| June/July 2009, it remained a
| controversially discussed topic in Germany.
| Especially civil society groups including
| the Internet community criticized the then
| Minister of Family Ursula von der Leyen for
| using child porn as an excuse to create a
| structure of online censorship.
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http://opennet.net/blog/2010/02/german-government-steps-away-2009-filtering-plan
Recent:
Internet down in Iran ahead of opposition protests
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| Iran said on Sunday its Internet
| connections will remain slow this week due
| to technical problems, ahead of
| anticipated protests by opposition
| supporters.
|
| Connections have been slow since last week
| and some email accounts have been
| unavailable for several hours each day.
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http://rawstory.com/2010/02/internet-iran-opposition-protests/
Iranian net slows to a crawl before planned protests
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| Iranian authorities have blamed fibre-
| optic network damage for a convenient
| slow-down in net connection speeds in the
| country this week.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/09/iranian_net_damaged_before_demos/
China jails porn-monger
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| China's aggressive crackdown on internet
| smut and dissent continues - yesterday a
| man was sentenced to 13 years prison for
| renting a US server for distributing
| pornographic material
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/09/china_arrests/
Cherie Blair and One Law for All
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| The NSS was a founder member of the One
| Law for All Campaign which seeks to impede
| the march of sharia law in Britain.
| Naturally we think that in a democracy
| everyone must be equal under the law, with
| no exceptions. Sharia law is full of
| exceptions and it is clear that women are
| not equal under that system.
|
| But now we discover that a different â
| more favourable â system of justice is
| being applied to religious people by
| Cherie Blair (professional name Cherie
| Booth) in her capacity as a judge. Last
| week in the Inner London Crown Court, Ms
| Blair/Booth spared a violent yob from
| prison because he is a âreligious manâ.
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http://www.secularism.org.uk/118079.html
Will Wikileaks Drown in Its Own Red Ink?
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| Wikileaks is usually described as a
| "whistleblower" site, but it's really more
| of a safe haven for secrets that need to
| be exposed -- kind of like a Swiss bank,
| only in reverse, so it's kind of fitting
| that a Swiss bank is one of its most
| famous targets. But instead of shielding
| people who are trying to hide their
| assets, it exposes them. Thanks to the
| nature of the Net, confidential sources
| can make those secrets public without
| putting their own necks on the chopping
| block.
|
| [...]
|
| So it's your choice. You can spend $10 on
| a couple of lattes and a kruller, or you
| can spend it on keeping information
| flowing just a little more freely around
| the world. I know which one I'd pick.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/188519/Will_Wikileaks_Drown_in_Its_Own_Red_Ink.html?tk=rss_news
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