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Date Posted: 20/10/10 21:15:57
Rebecca MacKinnon: China’s Internet: Let a Thousand Filters Bloom
From YaleGlobal:
The internet has played a key role in China’s opening up to the world. But, as Rebecca MacKinnon writes, the Chinese government has cracked down on online freedom of expression. Thanks to deals with multinational corporations, US technology has facilitated Beijing’s campaign to restrict internet discussions on troublesome issues like democracy, human rights, and Taiwanese independence. “Granular” technologies developed by US information technology giants enable installation of a powerful mesh of filters to control information flow: State-of-the art routers automatically track individual internet users and even filter out sub-pages from larger sites. As a result, says MacKinnon, “the picture of the world as seen by most Chinese internet users is heavily skewed in the regime’s favor.” Western companies have felt increasing public pressure to take more responsibility for China’s uses of their products, even spurring US legislation to support freedom on the internet. Despite the multinationals’ claims of innocence – and ignorance – more and more critics, like MacKinnon, are calling for “consequences for companies found to be deliberately aiding censorship and political repression.”
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June 28, 2005 6:57 PM
Translation of the Filtered Key Words in Chinese Cyberspace
Nine months ago, I posted the list of 1041 filtered words from a file obtained by a Chinese hacker from a Chinese Internet company Tencent. This list was also cross checked with another two lists CDT independently received from other Chinese ICP (Internet Content Provider) and ISP (Internet Service Provider) companies. There are some variations (less than 2%) of the banned list, but the vast majority of words are the same. One of students in my last class has translated the entire list into English. Since MSN has been apparently using a list of filtered words for their Chinese customers, it will be interesting to test this list on MSN Space to see whether the list is the same. The English translation will also help CDT readers to gain insight into the censor’s psyche as well.
Rough analysis of this list: Falungong related ~ 20%; Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan ~ 15%; names of Chinese leaders and their relatives ~ 15%; democracy, corruption, politics ~ 15%; social unrest, police ~ 10%; names of dissident writers, political exiles ~ 10%; porn related ~ 15% .
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June 24, 2005 10:53 PM
Toby Manhire: What bloggers said about Microsoft in China
From The Guardian Unlimited:
News that Microsoft has joined forces with the Chinese government to ban words such as “democracy” and “human rights” from MSN Spaces, the weblog service it launched in the country last month, set “the blogosphere a-buzzin’”, said Tim Bray at his Ongoing blog (TBray.org). Bray was not alone in condemning the US company for agreeing to “be Beijing’s bitch to buy some bloggers”.
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June 17, 2005 9:00 AM
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