Tag Archives : censorship

Google said in post published on Monday (19) official blog that the one hundred countries to which it offers at least 25 partially block the products supplied by the company. Google says it sees these control efforts in many ways. The China example would be the most polarized, but is not the only one. Google products – search and blog by YouTube [...]

Although suffering a steady and growing censorship, more and more Chinese use the Internet to express their opinion using the great ease to write good articles, and at the same time circumvent government control. “The Chinese bloggers are the smartest in the world. In addition to writing a good and interesting article, they should think how to [...]

Chinese Internet users, despite their skillful dribble into the censors are more angry than ever. China is trying to force the installation of a program of censorship in all new personal computer, while Iran has succeeded this week in virtually eliminate the spread of the Internet reports of protests in the streets against a possible fraud in [...]

A recent report by Freedom House, an organization founded by the U.S. government and private groups, reveals that freedom of expression and the right of expression continue to decline throughout the world for the seventh consecutive year. Out of the 125 journalists imprisoned in 2008, half of them are behind bars in China and Cuba. The study by Freedom [...]

Quite stupendous but figures show that the number of Internet users in China is nearly equal to the population of the United States – somewhere in the area of 298 million. The figure is not really astounding if one sees it within the general scheme of things: the Chinese internet users total means that only 23 percent of Chinese use the Web. In the [...]

China has accused both Google and Baidu as peddlers of filth. Baidu is known as China’s Google. According to the Chinese government, the country has “decided to launch a nationwide campaign to clean up a vulgar current on the Internet.” 19 Internet operators and websites that were previously identified have not removed their “vulgar” [...]

China has left the repressive shackles of Communism but vestiges of state control are hard to shake off. One of these lingering practices is censorship. Fairly recently, China censored the information on the melamine tainted milk scandal which government authorities had known even before the Beijing Olympics. For fear of tarnished image that could [...]