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Hackers attack AU websites to protest censorship
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| A band of cyber-attackers have taken down
| the Australian Parliament House website and
| hacked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's website
| in coordinated protests against government
| plans to filter the Internet.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20100210/hackers-attack-au-websites-protest-censorship.htm
Censorship of the internet- is China really that guilty?
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| Is it true that a bill was tabled before
| congress that sought to give the US
| president absolute power to take over the
| internet? Why does the US ban access to
| sites, and not just any sites but open
| source application sites to citizens of
| other countries? Why does Google do same
| with their code hosting service Google
| Code? I find it very funny and ironic when
| the kettle tells the pot how black it
| looks!
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/02/censorship-of-internet-is-china-really.html
The Pirate Bay blocked in Italy, a second time
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| After first being blocked in 2008, an
| Italian court has once again ruled that
| ISPs in the nation must block access to the
| infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay,
| leaving millions of users without access to
| one of the most popular sites on the
| planet.
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http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/21579.cfm
Google censors Youtube nasties
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| Launched yesterday, Youtube's safety mode
| will allow users with Google or Youtube
| accounts to only view content that's deemed
| to be wholesome and abides by Youtube's
| Community Guidelines. Of course the problem
| with this is that you will have to trust
| that the filtering system is up-to-date
| with the latest content.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1591577/google-censors-youtube-nasties
Google shuts down music blogs without warning
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| Bloggers told they have violated terms
| without further explanation, as years of
| archives are wiped off the internet
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/11/google-deletes-music-blogs
Google's Latest Music Blog Kerfuffle Highlights Problems With The DMCA
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| You may recall that almost exactly a year
| ago there were all sorts of reports of
| music blogs using Google's Blogger service
| finding their blog posts silently
| disappearing. The issue, it turned out, was
| the way Google dealt with DMCA takedown
| notices from copyright holders. The way the
| DMCA is set up, in order to avoid
| liability, Google is put in an awkward
| position of having to take the content
| down.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100210/1454048115.shtml
Verizon Blocks 4chan
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| According to 4chan's Twitter account and
| status update blog, they have been
| "explicitly blocked" by the Verizon
| wireless network.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/verizon_blocks_4chan.php
YouTube Advertises Presence Of New Iran Protest Clips
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| Yesterday, Iranian authorities enacted a
| ban on Gmail, saying they'd introduce a
| government-sponsored (and presumably
| government-monitored) email service to
| replace it. Now, as YouTube's seeing an
| influx of protest videos, Google's taken a
| moment to mark the Iranian government's
| lack of control.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/02/11/youtube-advertises-presence-of-new-iran-protest-clips
"There are no dissidents in China."
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| That's a direct quote from China's Ministry
| of Foreign Affairs spokesman.
|
| Ma Zhaoxu was asked earlier today about a
| Beijing court upholding an 11 year jail
| term for Liu Xiaobo, one of China's most
| high-profile activists.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/11/there-are-no-disside.html
Recent:
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/
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