... Tomorrow and the next day I hope to have a chance when I'm in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great Wall. Truly, this is a nation that encompasses both a rich history and a belief in the promise of the future.
For quite a while I’ve been thinking about China as a sandbox where various procedures and measures of controlling everything that is online are practiced and polished - to see if they work or not at all. For now I think it is quite obvious that the measures don’t really work - no matter how hard th ...
From the Great Firewall to the Myanmar Wide Web, Asia is well-known for its practices in Internet filtering. China has long taken the lead in blocking Web sites, filtering sites across the spectrum - from social to political content, … Read the original: Jillian York: Internet Filtering in Asia Acce ...
Twitter is everywhere — everywhere, that is, but China. Government censors in the world’s most populous country have closed its Great Firewall ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to “shield” citizens from online dissent and pro-democracy web sites. In addition to ...
Several weeks ago, we made some changes to our website. Among the changes was a new feature that allows readers to translate our blog to other languages. This feature is made possible by a WordPress plugin called Global Translator. Translation is done via Google Translation Services and frankly spea ...
