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NET NEUTRALITY   |  Comment

AT&T Gets Annoyed by Net Neutrality, Opera Mobile Gets Squashed by China

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 8:44 AM

"If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it." - White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Internet Policy, Andrew McLaughlinREAD»

FREE SPEECH   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

BY James McIntosh
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jul 17, 2009 at 6:56 AM

Free speech at work:I’ve been accused of coming across angry lately.  I’m so pleased you’ve noticed.Let me tell you why I’m a little annoyed.  This country was built on something called free speech.  Not only ...READ»

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NICOLE WONG   |  1 comment

Google's Censorship Czar: "Government Filtering is Not All Bad"

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM

Nicole Wong, dubbed  "Google's Gatekeeper" by the New York Times Magazine and "The Decider" by her colleagues, is the person at Google with the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to honor ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Free Speech and Censorship in Online Communities

BY David Teten
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 8:36 PM

Is free speech an absolute right in online communities? Yes, but community owners have the right to establish and enforce codes of conduct.READ»

AFRICA   |  Comment

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 4

BY Jon Gos
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 5:59 AM

Subscribe to Appfrica by Email Forbes Calls Africa The ‘Last Investment Frontier’ “In 1989, there were just five sub-Saharan stock exchanges; now there are 16." - Forbes, John Christy Africa Thriving ...READ»

NETWORKING   |  1 comment

Community Censorship

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 8:13 PM

Is free speech an absolute right in online communities? Yes, suggest Resource Center Columnists David Teten and Scott Allen -- but community owners have the right to establish and enforce codes of conduct. Read Teten and Allen's ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  6 comments

Censorship Without Borders

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri May 5, 2006 at 1:55 PM

Reporters Without Borders, the association devoted to press freedom worldwide, released its annual report this week. The section devoted to the Internet reveals that Net censorship is far more pervasive than you would think. Twenty ...READ»

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Full Text: Open Debate

BY Bruce Barry and Ermis Sfakiyanudis
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 11:06 AM

Should your boss be able to limit your freedom of speech?READ»

BOOTSTRAPPING   |  1 comment

Oops and Ouch! and We Don't Know Why

BY Carel Two-Eagle
Relevancy Score: 91
Wed Sep 3, 2008 at 8:57 PM

Hanh mitakuyapi. Hello my relatives. I got a notice from Fast Company that they removed one of our group's members "for activity deemed inappropriate to the group and/or Fast Company". That's the whole notice. While I, at ...READ»

DESIGN   |  Comment

Google's Head Editor: "Government Filtering is Not All Bad"

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 85
Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM

  Nicole Wong, dubbed  "Google's Gatekeeper" by the New York Times Magazine and "The Decider" by her colleagues, is the person at Google with the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether to ...READ»

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT   |  1 comment

Open Debate

BY Bruce Barry and Ermis Sfakiyanudis
Relevancy Score: 81
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:21 AM

Should your boss be able to limit your freedom of speech?READ»

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ANDY BURNHAM   |  1 comment

UK Govt Wants Film-Style International Website Ratings

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 69
Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 7:35 AM

"This is not a campaign against free speech" said the UK's Minister for Culture, as he made a call for all websites to carry a film-style parental rating. And for the sites to be taken offline if deemed offensive or violent. These are ...READ»

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CHINA   |  Comment

China Delays Rule Requiring Web Filtering Software on PCs

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 62
Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 9:23 AM

Without explanation or details, the Chinese government has suspended the enforcement of the new rule mandating that Web filtering software, known as Green Dam Youth Escort, be included with every computer sold in that country. The ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT   |  4 comments

"The Long Tail" Exists Beyond Amazon

BY Greg Spotts
Relevancy Score: 46
Wed Aug 9, 2006 at 4:48 PM

Author Chris Anderson is building an empire from one clever catchphrase, The Long Tail. According to Anderson, the unlimited shelf space of Internet merchants like Amazon and iTunes allows a broad product offering that generates ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  3 comments

The Chinese Question

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 45
Tue Feb 14, 2006 at 3:27 PM

How's this for spin? A Chinese official today defended the country's Internet censorship practices, saying the controls don't differ much from those used in the United States or Europe (free registration required). That statement ...READ»

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CHINA   |  1 comment

Green Dam Meets the Great Firewall: China Adds a New Wrinkle to Web Censorship

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 45
Mon Jun 8, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Beginning July 1, PC makers pushing their products in China will face an ethical challenge. That's when the Chinese government plans to require all PCs sold in the country to ship with software that blocks access to particular ...READ»

ETHICS   |  11 comments

At What Price Freedom?


Relevancy Score: 43
Thu Sep 8, 2005 at 2:13 PM

It's already been reported that companies such as Microsoft and Google censor content of Internet users in China at the behest of the government there. Now comes a story of how Yahoo -- which also allows its content to be censored -- ...READ»

CD KEY   |  Comment

World of Warcraft has come back to China

BY Ada Garfield
Relevancy Score: 42
Fri Sep 4, 2009 at 4:31 AM

World of Warcraft Power Leveling has been banned for a long time. After a lot of frustration, World of Warcraft is finally getting back to China, but it seems that it didn't do so without making some concessions to China's censorship. ...READ»

RE:CON F2C 2005   |  Comment

What's Incumbent upon Incumbents?

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 42
Thu Mar 31, 2005 at 11:50 AM

After a short coffee break, Freedom to Connect participants reconvened for a panel discussion moderated by Kevin Werbach, former editor of Release 1.0 and an assistant professor of legal studies at the Wharton School, University of ...READ»

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CHINA   |  Comment

China Disables Google Features as Anti-Pornography Campaign Intensifies

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 37
Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 10:10 AM

China is not relenting in its latest campaign against "vulgar" material on the Web. In its latest salvo against the free flow of information, the People's Republic has ordered Google to shut down its foreign Web site search and ...READ»

TEAMWORK   |  2 comments

Out of Pocket

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 37
Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 11:10 AM

Last night, I watched the documentary Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In an interview segment filmed at the 2000 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, which included a 30th anniversary Smothers Brothers ...READ»

WORK/LIFE   |  Comment

The Self-Prescribing Media Doctor #6

BY Emeri Gent
Relevancy Score: 35
Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Free speech may have the word "free" in it, but its upto me to figure out what "free" really means.  Free to me means both having the freedom to change ones own thoughts and while it's instructive to listen to the freedom message ...READ»

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CHINA   |  Comment

Backlash Mounts Against China's Mandated Web Censorship Software

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 33
Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM

China’s announcement Monday that all computers sold in that country must include state-approved software to filter out pornography has drawn a good deal of commentary this week, none of it good. PC makers, civil liberties groups, ...READ»

Google Bends to China's Whims, Agrees to Further Restrict Search Results
GOOGLE   |  2 comments

Google Bends to China's Whims, Further Restricts Search Results

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 31
Mon Jun 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM

In the midst of an ongoing standoff between China and the international community over Internet censorship, Google has blinked. The search giant is agreeing to "take all necessary steps" to ensure no pornographic ...READ»

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INTERNET CENSORSHIP   |  1 comment

AT&T Plays the B**tard Censor, Starts Blocking 4Chan's /b/? [Updated]

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 31
Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 7:01 AM

There are reports surfacing that suggest AT&T has begun blocking access to parts of 4chan. Oh-oh. Considering how popular its message boards are, and the net-rascals who frequent them, AT&T's just censored the wrong ...READ»

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