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Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Bloggers-in-Danger, Bloggers, Internet Censorship, China Censorship, Censorship, Civil Rights, Blogging, Chinese Censorship, Bloggers in Danger, Threatened Voices, World News

Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month...

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Frankfurt Book Fair Official Fired For Treatment Of Chinese

The New York Times | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Communism, Censorship, Fired, Free Speech, Books, Book Fair, China, Chinese Writers, Chinese, Chinese Dissidents, Chinese Censorship, Frankfurt Book Fair, Books News

The Frankfurt Book Fair, which struggled to find a balance between free speech and honoring China as its featured country, dismissed its project manag...

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Frankfurt Book Fair: Deals, E-Books, China, Mandela

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Frankfurt, Publishing, Nelson Mandela, Google Books, Book Publishing, Google Editions, Books, Book Fair, China, Chinese Censorship, Frankfurt Book Fair, Cory Doctorow, Books News

The Frankfurt Book Fair has been going on this week, and it's brought news, controversy, and excitement galore with it. The choice of China for guest ...

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China Guest Of Honor At Frankfurt Book Fair

AP | MELISSA EDDY | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Books, Book Fair, China, Chinese Books, Book Fairs, Chinese Censorship, Frankfurt Book Fair, Books News

BERLIN — Organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair worked for 15 years to secure China as the guest of honor at their five-day showcase of global tr...

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Writer Liu Xiaobo Release from China Demanded By Congress

PEN American Center | Larry Siems | Posted 10.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Censorship, Liu Xiaobo, Writers, PEN America, Liu Xiaobo Release, Beijing Writer, Writer, PEN American Center, Books, Pen, Chinese Censorship, Books News

New York City, October 2, 2009--Calling yesterday's near-unanimous vote approving a Congressional resolution demanding the immediate release of critic...

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Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Twitter, Social Networking, Iran Twitter, Roger Cohen, Iran, Media, China Riots, China, Bob Woodward, Iran Uprising, China Media, Bill Keller, Chinese Censorship, Media News
Arianna Huffington

When deadly riots broke out in China last week, the Chinese government sprang into message control mode. It choked off the Internet, blocked Twitter, and deleted updates and videos from social networking sites. At the same time, it invited foreign journalists to take a tour of the area. The Chinese have clearly learned the lessons of Iran. READ MORE Shattering the Right vs. Left Prism Once Again: The Wall Street Journal Goes After Goldman and the Bank Bailout Even the capitalist Bible is taking shots at Wall Street darling Goldman Sachs. We've now reached the point where the only people defending the administration's Wall Street policies are the people benefiting from them -- or their good friends, Tim Geithner and Larry Summers. READ MORE

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Three Cheers for Democracy and the World Wide Web

Christina Patterson | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Democracy, China, Iran Protests 2009, Iran Election, Chinese Censorship, Media News
Christina Patterson

Vicious governments will always try to hold on to power, but a modest Englishman called Tim has made their job much harder.

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Why China's Leaders Need to Worry About Recent Events in Iran: Twitter Trumps the Great Firewall

Peter Scheer | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Election, Iran Protests, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Iranian Election, Censorship, China, Chinese Censorship, World News
Peter Scheer

Both Iran and China are modernizing autocracies committed by a combination of ideology and fear to maintaining control over their peoples' access to information. Iran's lesson for China's leaders is that the technologies of censorship, despite their increasing sophistication, may not be sufficient to prevent determined citizens from using technologies of communication to organize dissent and political opposition on a mass scale.

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Hardware Risk: China Targets PC Manufacturers

Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 07.11.2009 | World

Read More: Google, Business-and-Human-Rights-Resource-Center, Dell, Microsoft, Business, China Human Rights, John Ruggie, Personal Computers, Global Network Initiative, Yahoo, Internet, Internet Politics, Human Rights, Hewlett Packard, Censorship, Chinese Censorship, World News
Michael Shtender-Auerbach

What happens when the Chinese request all PC's include internal hardware mechanisms for the tracking and monitoring of its users?

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CNN Reporter Blocked By Umbrellas At Tiananmen Square (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Flumenbaum | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Tiananmen, CNN Umbrellas, Chinese Censorship, John Vause, Tiananmen Square, Media News

Chinese officials blocked video cameras from filming at Tiananmen Square on Wednesday... with umbrellas. Reporting from the square, CNN's John Vause ...

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Herdict: Real-Time Internet Censorship Monitoring

Thomas Crampton | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Jonathan Zittrain, Thomas Crampton, China, Censorship, Chinese Censorship, Media News
Thomas Crampton

A collaborative approach to reporting of Internet blocks can be particularly useful in countries like China, where Internet blocks appear to hopscotch through cities inconsistently.

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F*ck Your Mother Ship, F*ck Censorship

Disgrasian | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, Grass Mud Horse, Double Entendres, Political Activism, Internet Censorship, Free Speech, Protest, China Internet Access, Chinese Government, Resistance, China Censorship, China Human Rights, Chinese Democracy, Chinese Censorship, China, World News
Disgrasian

This is China we're talking about, so the video isn't just funny, punny wordplay. The grass-mud horse video has become a national symbol of resistance to authority and censorship.

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Tibet's Unlikely Defender: A Chinese Journalist's Change of Mind

Rebecca Novick | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: China-Tibet-Crackdown, China Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, China Tibet, China Human Rights, Journalism, China, Media, Chinese Censorship, Media News
Rebecca Novick

Zhu Rui has met the Dalai Lama twice now. "He has such simplicity," she says, "which is why many Chinese leaders don't understand him. They are much too complicated."

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How Beijing Butchered Sean Penn's "Commie, Homo-Loving" Oscar Speech

David Flumenbaum | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Star TV, Award Season, Milk, Sean Penn, The Oscars, Cctv, Harvey Milk, Sean Penn Milk, Oscars 2009, Asia Oscars Censorship, China Oscars Censorship, Oscars, Asia, Sean Penn Oscar Speech, Censorship, Chinese Censorship, Dustin Lance Black, Sean-Penn-Oscars-Speech, Sean Penn Prop. 8, China Gay Rights, China Censorship, Dustin Lance Black China, Sean Penn Academy Award, Dustin Lance Black Acceptance Speech, Entertainment News
David Flumenbaum

Around Asia, mentions of "gay" or "lesbian" were muted out of the Oscars broadcast. But the award for the most creative censorship method goes to China's CCTV for its work during Sean Penn's speech.

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: The Internet, Blogosphere, Dalai Lama, Western Countries, Chinese Blogs, Foreign Affairs, Media Censorship, US Foreign Policy, Media, Tibet, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Internet, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Chinese Internet Users, Chinese Culture, Tim Geithner, Chinese Government, Censorship, Chinese Internet, Chinese Censorship, China, World News
Rebecca MacKinnon

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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Fair Trade Suffers When China Censors The Internet. It's Not Just A Human Rights Issue.

Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Transition, Internet Policy, China, Internet Censorship, Google, Yahoo China, Microsoft, Baidu, China Internet Access, Google China, China Censorship, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft China, Myspace, Chinese Censorship, Politics News
Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg

We are accustomed to thinking of censorship purely as a human rights issue, but for information providers and technology companies, censorship acts as a trade barrier.

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China Bans Lip-Synching in Response to Olympics Pseudo-Scandal

John Wagner Givens | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Olympics, Lin Miaoke, China Olympics, Chinese Government, Freedoms in China, China Lip-Synching, Ministry of Culture, Lip-Synching in China, Chinese Censorship, China, Yang Peiyi, Colbert Report, The Colbert Report, World News
John Wagner Givens

The Chinese state has staked its legitimacy on providing economic growth, stability and an ever increasing stature for China on the world stage. The 2008 Olympics had to be flawless.

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China Bans Democracy, Declares War on Guns N' Roses

David Flumenbaum | Posted 02.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chinese Democracy Release, Axl Rose, China Censorship, China Bans Guns N Roses, Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy, Chinese Censorship, Matt Sorum, Duff McKagan, Slash, Guns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy, Martin Scorsese, Axl Rose China, China Bans Chinese Democracy, China Guns N' Roses, Kundun, Entertainment News
David Flumenbaum

It is unlikely that when Axl Rose selected the title for his album, he realized the depth of the parallels between Chinese democracy and Chinese Democracy.

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Monstrous Deals

Megan Shank | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Monster.com, tom.com, Democracy, Skype, China, Chinese Censorship, Tiananmen Square, Josh Silverman, Business News
Megan Shank

For many companies working with Chinese firms on online products and services the hidden cost inherent in sticky ethics often emerges snarling.

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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China Space Mission Article Hits Web Before Launch

Posted 10.26.2008 | Media

Read More: China, Space, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Government, Media News

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Beijing Police "Rough Up" Two AP Photographers, Detain More Activists

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, China, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Government, Media News

BEIJING — Police descended on a group of foreign pro-Tibet activists and some disgruntled business owners from Hong Kong on Thursday, taking bot...

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China Takes Away Bibles From American Christians

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chinese Censorship, Religion in China, China Religion, Religious Persecution, China, Olympics, Politics News

BEIJING — A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese officials when they arrived in China is refusing to...

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A Snapshot of the Olympic Green 48 Hours Before the Games Begin

Courtney Woo | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Culture, China Media, China Journalists, China, Chinese Censorship, Interns, Today Show, Media News
Courtney Woo

To an impartial observer, the weeks of preparation at the Olympic Green and IBC are falling into place. Now, with two days to go, the only thing Beijing needs to hope for is good weather.

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On Navigating Beijing's Tight Security: Subways, Stadiums, Medications and Tampons

Courtney Woo | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Culture, China Media, China Journalists, Oprah, Students, China, Chinese Censorship, Interns, Media News
Courtney Woo

Security in Beijing tightens by the day as the Olympics approach. In early July, I went through zero security checkpoints a day. Today, I passed through security or had my badge checked a total of 8 times.

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