jonathan liau's List: ITGS Debate

• . The researchers found that China blocked just 13.4% of their sample of well-known sexually explicit sites.
• Other sites with potentially sensitive political material were also blocked, including dozens of sites about democracy and human rights.

• Without blocking Google, Baidu cannot success. Without blocking Wikipedia, Hoodong cannot success. Without blocking Blogger, Blogcn cannot success. Without blocking YouTube, Youku cannot success.
• rant about the China Government their Blogger hosted blogs.
• The government would not let people discuss about the parties or the government in International Websites,

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• Having requested some 204,012   distinct web sites, we found more than 50,000 to be inaccessible from at least   one point in China on at least one occasion
• Of the 752 of these pages still providing content at the time of this   testing, 101 (13.4%) were blocked in China.
• 86.2%) of these same sites   to be blocked in Saudi Arabia
• 18,931 of these   sites (9.3%) were blocked in China

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• Chinese Government said that 45.8 million people were online.
• Google for research, not politics.

• Human rights activists say more than 30,000 people are employed to keep an eye on websites, chat rooms and private e-mail messages. 

   Some 150,000 unlicensed internet cafes nationwide have been closed in recent months and those remaining have had to install software that prevents access to up to 500,000 banned sites. 

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• 71 percent of the public said that "people should have the right to read whatever is on the Internet;
• The 12 nations with a majority calling for more freedom included Mexico (75%), Kenya (75%), Nigeria (70%), China (66%), South Korea (65%), Egypt (64%), the Palestinian territories (62%), Azerbaijan (57%), Argentina (75%), Jordan (56%), Indonesia (53%), and Peru (51%).

• Western countries are moving to erect online security borders with aggressive proposals to block Web sites
• governments are pressing for legislation aimed at thwarting attacks and walling off Web sites that espouse illegal activities or are "likely to have the effect of facilitating" crime.
• anti-terrorism
• Internet sites offering bomb-making recipes and to make online recruiting of terrorists a punishable offense.
• In Germany, where the authorities recently foiled a planned terrorist attack,
• Swedish defense minister has also sought broad powers to monitor e-mail traffic without court orders

  • negative aspect
• "The Internet, as we all know, is abused for terrorist propaganda and also for disseminating information on how to make bombs," Roscam-Abbing said.
• "What we want to achieve is to make that phenomenon punishable."
• Critics, though, regard these ambitions warily since the nations in the European Union are already moving toward the adoption in 2009 of a "data retention directive" that will require Internet service providers to keep information about communications from six months to two years to aid in the identification of networks for terrorist activities.

  • Tech aspect of how they are doing it
• The program would also allow monitoring of keystrokes so that agents could track passwords.

  • against...
• existing laws that investigators could use," Fuchs said. "Police can demand to check e-mail if they have reasonable justification.

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• Citing the Mumbai terrorists’ statement that they used Google Maps as a planning tool,

  • why did they deliberately say this? they want us to know that they are using it and so change our ways due to their actions, hence they won. since their goal is to casuse terror, and this terror has been stricken into our hearts since we are changing the way google maps work for our safety. BUT is it worth letting them lose this way, by not changing things and lettings us be more vunerable to attacks. or being less vunerable to attacks and changing the way google maps work?
• In this context it’s quite silly to argue that mapping should be regulated when there’s a corresponding refusal to pursue much more dangerous instruments of terrorism.

• Many other areas in Google Earth have been blurred by governments keen to stop people seeing sensitive sites.
• This has prompted many people to scour Google's virtual Earth looking for the places where this blurring has occurred.