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China: Blogger Zhou Shuguang a.k.a. "Zola" barred from leaving country, "potential threat to state security" - Boing Boing
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Rebecca McKinnon reports on 27 year-old blogger Zhou Shuguang, aka "Zola," whom the Chinese government have banned from leaving the country as a "potential threat to state security." Snip:
Campaign to defeat Internet Censorship in Australia
The Government is persisting with its plans to introduce compulsory internet censorship in Australia. It's bad policy. It's a waste of money, it won't work and there are better alternatives. Not to mention the threat to free speech. But let's be absolutely clear:
If you think we will defeat internet filtering just by being right or just because the facts are on our side - think again. This is politics. If we don't get properly organised with a clear and consistent message that reaches the people who need to hear it - we WILL lose.
China Channel Firefox Add-on - Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!
The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.
CircumventionTools (en)
Excellent guide to Censorship Circumvention tools.
Explains concepts of censorship and variety of tools and techniques that can be used to bypass filters
Netizen Against Introduction of Internet Filtering
The Hong Kong government has issued a consultation paper on the “Review of the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance” last Friday (Oct 3). The first round of consultation will be lasted until end of January.
A most controversial issue is the
Senate wants FCC to conduct "advanced blocking" study
The United States Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the Federal Communications Commission to explore what "advanced blocking technologies" are available to parents to help filter out "indecent or objectionable programming." The "Child Saf
Rabbis black-list non-kosher music
Lipa Schmeltzer looks and sounds every inch the popular ultra-orthodox Jewish singer that he is.
He sings in Yiddish. He dresses in the clothes of a Haredi Jew and all of his song lyrics come from the scriptures.
Yet some say Schmeltzer's music, and tha
Syria tightens control over internet
Syrian authorities are tightening their control over the internet and shutting loopholes that used to allow access to banned websites, according to a Damascus free-speech watchdog.
New research by the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression sug
Looking for censorship in some unusal places
Through a youth network of 30 partner organizations, representatives of Lebanese NGOs, civil society organizations, partisan and non-partisan youth groups organized a gathering in Beirut earlier this month to tackle issues of censorship in Lebanon. One co
The China Dilemma: Internet Censorship and Corporate Responsibility
The ever increasing nexus between human rights and business and the accompanying vagueness of concepts such as a company's'sphere of influence or responsibility' for human rights can, and has, created anxiety amongst companies. Considerations of human rig
YouTube Ban Lifted
News about YouTube being blocked in Kuwait hit the headlines yesterday, with bloggers frustrated over what they described as yet another intrusion on freedom of speech in their country.
The Kuwait Ministry of Communications first issued an order to local
Tunisia lifts YouTube and Dailymotion ban, but…
The news today is that Tunisia has lifted the ban on both popular video-sharing websites Youtube (Blocked since November 2nd, 2007) and Dailymotion (Blocked since Septembre 3rd, 2007).
But some tests carried out from Tunisia by some Tunisian activists an
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