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Russia Police | Russian Cops | YouTube Protest on 2009-11-16
- “Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,” Dymovsky says in a YouTube message addressed to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
  
  “I will show you the life of cops in Russia, how it is lived, with all the corruption and all the rest – with ignorance, rudeness, recklessness, with honest officers killed because they have stupid bosses.”
  
  And so Dymovsky continues, in a series of three 2-to-7-minute long videos released over the past week that have together garnered 1 million hits on YouTube, and caused a firestorm across Russia.
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- - In a country where open criticism is seen as a brief luxury offered by the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, the videos immediately raised questions about Dymovsky’s safety — and the power and fate of the internet in Russia.
  - In a country where open criticism is seen as a brief luxury offered by the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, the videos immediately raised questions about Dymovsky’s safety — and the power and fate of the internet in Russia.
  - In a country where open criticism is seen as a brief luxury offered by the chaotic post-Soviet 1990s, the videos immediately raised questions about Dymovsky’s safety — and the power and fate of the internet in Russia.
multicast » Blog Archive » Comcast is after me… and Internet video on 2009-11-16
- But Comcast, my old window-smashing nemesis, hasn’t been sitting still. It’s announced plans to acquire a majority share of NBC Universal — a video content production powerhouse (The Office, Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, the Olympic Games, Inglorious Basterds, Coraline, …). Bernstein Research (quoted by Post Tech) evocatively noted that if this merger goes through “Comcast would be calling the shots for one out of five viewing hours in the United States.”
China's Netizens Seek Political Community, Not Just Games and Entertainment - AdAgeChina - Viewpoint on 2009-11-16
- The Chinese have their social networks, their internet video sites, their blogs, their microblog sites not too different from Twitter, and of course their online games—none of which perhaps are too radically different from what we know in the U.S.
- , its role as the de facto "public sphere," where surprisingly critical viewpoints are increasingly being heard.
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- - The internet in China takes on a lot more political and social significance because, prior to the boom in internet use over the last decade, China simply never had anything approximating a public sphere. There was, in other words, no lasting place, whether physical or virtual, ad hoc or institutional, where Chinese citizens could go to air their views, exchange ideas in public, to sound off and be heard.
  - But the Chinese word for it, wangmin, translates perfectly as "netizen," and I think there's a good reason why the word is in such wide use in China. It really captures the implicit sense of "citizenship," with all its political implications, in the word as used both in Chinese and in English. The sense, among many Chinese internet users, of belonging to a kind of polity, a political community, has become one more salient feature of China's internet culture.
  - As the frontline practitioners of important freedoms, reporters and their editors are naturally concerned with curbs on those freedoms. This emphasis in reporting has reinforced an impression that China's internet culture has languished under the heavy hand of a censorious regime, and this preconception really blinkers us to some of the complexities of the Chinese Web.
    
    It's gotten to the point where the "Great Firewall of China" has become a kind of "Iron Curtain 2.0," the symbolic dividing line between a free West and an autocratic East, as one academic looking at Chinese internet censorship, Lokman Tsui, has observed. In the minds of many westerners, China and its notorious internet controls are so closely associated that they're practically inseparable.
  - the belief that unfettered access to information leads to social instability.
  - who believe that China's fundamental level of sophistication remains very low
  - It's an article of basic faith with not only the Chinese Communist Party but with most Chinese that social stability is a basic prerequisite for economic development
China: No Media Censorship of Obama - Political Hotsheet - CBS News on 2009-11-15
- Coverage plans have been part of intense U.S.-Chinese negotiations. The President's advance team contacted Chinese bloggers to help assure the spread of his message. The official New China News Service reported nearly 3,300 questions had been submitted for Obama.
Chinese Sexual Culture on 2009-11-08
- the "International Conference on Chinese Sexual Culture." It was held at People's University in Beijing in the third week of June, and was organized by the Sex Research Institute at People's University. This is practically a two person operation, but still the best academic sex research in China, led by sociologist Pan Suiming, who has been studying sexuality for over two decades in China.
- One of the milestones that is frequently discussed is the abolition of the crime of "hooliganism" in 1997. This was often the vague legal code under which many homosexuals and some heterosexuals who had engaged in non-marital sex, were arrested or detained by police. Now gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in China can rightly claim that there is no law against what they are doing sexually. It was pointed out repeatedly at the conference, however, that in removing the law against hooliganism, the government never had to take a stance clearly in favor of gay rights, nor are there any legal guarantees of gay rights in China.
Trial in Chongqing, China, Reveals Vast Web of Corruption - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-08
- “We called 110,” she said, referring to the Chinese emergency number, “but the police said they couldn’t get involved in a government affair.”
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- The spectacle involves more than 9,000 suspects, 50 public officials, a petulant billionaire and criminal organizations that dabbled in drug trafficking, illegal mining, and random acts of savagery, most notably the killing of a man for his unbearably loud karaoke voice.
Trial in Chongqing, China, Reveals Vast Web of Corruption - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-08
- The spectacle involves more than 9,000 suspects, 50 public officials, a petulant billionaire and criminal organizations that dabbled in drug trafficking, illegal mining, and random acts of savagery, most notably the killing of a man for his unbearably loud karaoke voice.
China's Cyber Offensive Puts the U.S. on the Defensive. - WSJ.com on 2009-11-08
- Prepared by the Northrop Grumman Corporation for the Commission, the authors state China is conducting a "long-term, sophisticated, computer network exploitation campaign." The report documents the most sophisticated cyberspying yet attributed to Beijing: a months-long cyber reconnaissance effort directed against a single U.S.-based company, followed by a "multiday" intrusion where large amounts of data were compiled and extracted to an Internet protocol address in China.
- The PLA has been developing these capabilities since at least 2003, when the then-director of the PLA's electronic warfare department, Dai Qingmin, proposed a comprehensive information warfare effort, including cyber attack, electronic attack and coordinated kinetic attacks in military operations. The PLA has specialized units and trained personnel to conduct these kinds of attacks, which require reconnaissance, mapping and targeting.
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- - To some extent China's cyberwarfare efforts are an extension of its more traditional espionage efforts to gather defense-related and economic information. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have had some success in prosecuting this kind of espionage. In California, the 2007 conviction of Chi Mak, an engineer for a defense contractor, revealed that information on naval propulsion and weapons systems was obtained by an official of the Chinese government. In two cases in Alexandria, Virginia in 2008, Department of Defense employees provided information on weapons systems and Taiwan's military to an individual working for the Chinese government.
    
    In the cyber realm, however, the U.S. government and private industry seem to be in a reactive role, detecting intrusions and information losses only after the fact, with no cross-government or industry coordinated response. To complicate the problem, the very nature of the Internet makes it difficult to attribute the intrusions to a specific actor, while neither criminal nor international law adequately deals with cyberspying. So what should be done?
  - China's growing cyberwarfare capabilities aren't solely directed at the U.S. Leaders in Britain and Germany have voiced concerns, too. These nations cooperate to fight cybercrime, like hacking into banks. A parallel initiative to detect and counter cyberspies would be useful—but the initiative has to start with the U.S.
Chinese Military (Singer) Invades Taiwan - China Real Time Report - WSJ on 2009-10-30
- For decades, China’s People’s Liberation Army has threatened Taiwan with possible military invasion. Now it’s sending over one commando: a propaganda singer.
  
  Sisi Chen, singer of the Second Artillery Corps under the People’s Liberation Army, is scheduled to perform in Taipei Saturday, becoming the first PLA member that has landed on the island in 50 years.
  
  Most Taiwanese haven’t head of Ms. Chen, a popular folk song singer in China who was chosen to perform in last year’s Beijing Olympics closing ceremony. She said she hopes to deepen cultural and artistic exchanges across the Taiwan Strait by introducing mainland folk songs to Taiwan audiences. To boost her publicity, Hong Kong actor Jackie Chan will be her concert’s special guest.
  
  Still, Ms. Chen’s military background has sparked a controversy in Taiwan. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party Friday urged the government to expel her immediately.
  
  “In the name of cultural exchange, she successfully covered hid her PLA background,” said DPP legislator Pan Meng-an. “From now on, more PLA members might visit Taiwan under different names.”

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