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China bloggers discuss how to get around the Great Firewall

Some China bloggers are sharing their experiences about how to circumvent the Great Firewall in this post: “On net surfing and getting our heads out of the sand”. The conversation on this subject is facinating. I want to recommend two other projects, Dongtai Net and UltraNet. I mentioned them in the interview with Online Journalism […]

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Who control the Internet?

Here is another article on Financial Times about the dispute in preparation for the December Geneva Summit on Information Society. “Some governments believe are their legitimate rights of decision over domain name allocation in their own countries, and the dominant influence of existing Internet providers and users. Icann’s defenders argue that giving an intergovernmental organization […]

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Du Daobin was formally arrested

Here is the latest development on Du Daobin’s case. He was formally charged on Wednesday, when police in Yingcheng, a city in Hubei province, handed over arrest papers to his family.

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Harry Potter evoked a national copyright debate

A report by Xinhua said that “the “Harry Potter” series published its fifth installment “The Order of the Phoenix” on June 21. Beijing-based People’s Literature Publishing House started its translation as soon as it got the book’s copyright. Some people, however, took the chance to put a Chinese version of the book on the Internet […]

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The best and worst countries for media corruption

According to a survey by the Institute for Public Relations in the US, China, followed by Saudi Arabia and Vietnam is ranked the worst country in the world for media corruption. Northern European countries such as Finland and Denmark top the survey list, which ranks countries in various categories such as the freedom of the […]

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