… and moved into Hong Kong. I haven’t posted anything for a while, but while I still get a little trickle of views I thought I’d finally follow up on something I covered a while back. I’ve been following the Google China news and as of yesterday, Google officially left its China offices and redirected [...]
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Google has left the Mainland …
Posted in Lost in My Mind, Technology, tagged censorship, China, Google, internet on March 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Google’s China problems: worth leaving over?
Posted in Lost in My Mind, Technology, tagged censorship, China, Google, internet on January 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday Google put up a blog post (via Jason Morrison) mentioning cyber attacks originating in China that appeared to be targeting human rights activists. Since entering China, Google has been in a precarious position of balancing the Chinese government’s insistance on censored results with their own mission to make information free and available to everyone. [...]
Science Fiction and China: China never dies!
Posted in Lost in My Mind, tagged censorship, China, Chinese, sci-fi on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Danwei translates from book planner Zhen Yufei’s Sina microblog: Famous Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin — remember, he’s a science fiction writer. A science fiction writer writes science fiction. When we sent this author’s work to the publisher for review and approval, they rejected it. The reason they gave for rejecting it was that [...]
China bans individuals from registering .cn domains
Posted in Lost in My Mind, Technology, tagged censorship, China, internet on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, just as the Internet has had a major democratization globally, China steps in with another ham-handed attempt at restricting it. Authorities in China have banned individuals from registering .cn domains. (via Shanghaiist): According to the latest report published by CNNIC, users who want to apply for domain names should provide written application materials to [...]
Chinese government departments fighting over WoW
Posted in Lost in My Mind, Technology, tagged censorship, China, WoW on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a little late in talking about this, word is recently that the Ministry of Culture has admonished the General Administration of Press and Publications for blocking the latest expansion of World of Warcraft in China. A little background: Fully half of WoW’s userbase is in China, about 5 million players, and has penetrated the [...]
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