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Chinese internet control: Corporate collaboration

Chinese internet control: Corporate collaboration. Rebecca MacKinnon 4/20/2006 www.RConversation.com. Aiding Big Brother:. Yahoo! aids in jailing of dissidents, heavily filters Chinese-language search engine; Google has rolled out a censored Chinese-language search-engine, Google.cn

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Chinese internet control: Corporate collaboration

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  1. Chinese internet control:Corporate collaboration Rebecca MacKinnon 4/20/2006 www.RConversation.com

  2. Aiding Big Brother: • Yahoo! aids in jailing of dissidents, heavily filters Chinese-language search engine; • Google has rolled out a censored Chinese-language search-engine, Google.cn • MSN censors Chinese bloggers • Cisco sells technology to Chinese police & its routers help censor the internet • Skype filters text chat Rebecca MacKinnon 4/20/2006 www.RConversation.com

  3. Yahoo! Aids arrest & sentencingof Shi Tao, Li Zhi, Jiang Lizhi, others? Rebecca MacKinnon 4/20/2006 www.RConversation.com

  4. Flg yahoo china search

  5. Wu hao yahoo china search Chinese Yahoo search results For name of detained filmmaker “Wu Hao” .. no information about his detention, Mainly about other people with same name.

  6. Wu hao google comparative search

  7. Google disclaimer Notice on Google.cn: “According to local laws and regulations, A portion of search results do not appear.”

  8. Blog of Zhao Jing (Michael Anti)- blocked on Chinese ISP’s

  9. “Anti” moved his blog to MSN Spaces last October after his blog-city bog was blocked. But on December 30th the entire contents of his new blog were deleted by Microsoft personnel from the MSN Spaces servers.

  10. MSN Spaces test blog: Effort to post “Falun Gong” in blog post title gets error message: “This item contains Forbidden language. Please remove the forbidden language From this item.”

  11. Same results when attempting to post “Tibetan Independence” in the blog’s title. This is all done from the U.S. on a U.S. ISP. That means, Microsoft is preventing Chinese bloggers WORLDWIDE from writing on these subjects.

  12. Efforts to post forbidden words in the text body (not titles of the posts) were ultimately Successful.

  13. …however 4 days later, the whole blog containing those sensitive words was shut down from inside the MSN system. Thus, by Microsoft employees. (NOTE: due to bad publicity in early January, Microsoft says they now only do this in response to Chinese government formal requests, and access is denied only to Chinese PRC users viewing from Chinese ISP’s.)

  14. MSN Spaces now hosts blog by sister of detained filmmaker Wu Hao. As of April 4th it is not blocked to Chinese internet users. This is an example of how public criticism helped change Microsoft practice and policy.

  15. All Chinese blog hosting services censor in various ways. BlogCN error message blocks attempt to post entry about Falun Gong.

  16. BlogBus shows *** where the 3 characters for “Falun Gong” were typed.

  17. Bokee allows creation of a blog with politically sensitive content, but not for long…

  18. 2 days later that blog is taken down from the server.

  19. Skype: Chinese partner filters text chat

  20. Skype’s Jaanus Kase explains…

  21. Skype’s Jaanus Kase says: “Skype has a joint venture with TOM Online. As part of that venture, we provide a co-branded version of Skype called TOM-Skype, which is the version of Skype that is available in mainland China.As part of the joint venture, TOM provides guidance to Skype about how to co-operate with local laws and regulations in China. In every country we operate in, we always work with local authorities to follow local laws and best practice.TOM operates a text filter in TOM-Skype. The filter operates solely on text chats. The filter has a list of words which will not be displayed in Skype chats.”

  22. What do you do when the user’s rights & interests and the host government’s interests are clearly in conflict? User Company Government

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