Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service, Taipei Bureau writes: “Chinese censors have blocked access to an online encyclopedia called Chinese Wikipedia that was created as a free and open source of information for Chinese Internet...
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Read MoreClay Shirky’s latest essay is an edited version of a talk he gave last November at Beth Noveck‘s “The State of Play” [conference on Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds.] Taking the “Code is Law” equation at face value, Shirky wonders what it would take to design an environment where game players owned their game world, […]
Read MoreHow scared should corporate China be of Hu Shuli? asks The Economist. Dubbed the most dangerous woman in China, Hu Shuli is the managing editor of Caijing a business magazine that “combines investigative reporting with the sort of critical commentary that a decade ago would have landed its journalists in jail”. ¤
Read MoreXinhua reports that China’s Ministry of Culture has banned a computer game for “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”. The PC game, “Hearts of Iron“, was accused of distorting historical facts in describing “Manchuria”, “West Xinjiang”, and “Tibet” as independent sovereign countries in the maps of the game. “All these severely distort […]
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