Archive for 'censorship'
Google and China
It’s been more than a week since Google announced that they were no longer going to censor search results on Google.cn in response to accusations that Chinese hackers were trying to spy on activists’ Email accounts and steal source code. I was almost expecting the Sino Google apocalypse, but it has not [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under China, censorship, technology.
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Making Lists – Retro
Highlights of 2009
Jake’s birth
Jake’s first swim
Jake’s first smile
Jake’s first laugh
Jake sitting up
Jake’s first plane ride to Guangzhou
Valentine’s Day at Bacaro
Family coming to see us in Shanghai
Getting VPN to work in China
Watching Zombieland
Listening to Boduf Songs
Setting up school Moodle site
Lowlights of 2009
Execution of Akmal Shaikh
Internet in China becoming a walled garden
Hopenhagen Farce
Shanghai’s poor air quality
Shanghai’s lack [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2010 under China, Shanghai, censorship, culture, family.
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Distribute The Web
Distributing the web is not my idea, but it resonated with me after Twitter and Facebook were blocked after the unrest in Xinjiang. The idea resurfaced among western technology commentators after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack against a Georgian blogger crippled Twitter and Livejournal.
The idea from tech heads such as Dave Winer, Marshall [...]
Posted: August 17th, 2009 under China, Internet, censorship.
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