Awaiting a Democratic Hong Kong
Global Voices a Harvard University Blog that features social justice news by bloggers around the world are doing a profile series of the nominees from the Reporters Without Border’s Freedom Blog Award. This is My Profile. They will continue add to this list through the next few weeks so please Check out Everyone Elses as Well. (I think the people behind the series is Andrea from T-Salon and Myrick from Asia Pundit.)
Spectrum, the magazine of IEEE (a global internet and electrical engineers assosiation) features a detailed, well researched, and one of the most indepth article on Internet in China. It’s written by Steven Cherry, the organizer of the 1996 internet "black out" protest against the US government’s Communications Decency Act Net Censorship legislation. It was very nice to meet him as his idea is what inspired me to do my own "black out" last year.
The Net Effect: AS CHINA’S INTERNET GETS A MUCH-NEEDED MAKEOVER, WILL THE NEW NETWORK PROMOTE FREEDOM OR CURTAIL IT?
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
excellent piece…
“if censorship technology flourishes in China, it will be easier and cheaper for it to also take root elsewhere.”
so true, just as china has become the life-support for tyrants like zimbabwe’s mugabe and uzbekistan’s karimov, watch as its number one export becomes censorship software…
congrats on the mention, yan! (“nom de guerre glutter girl”)
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I had a bit of discussion with Steven about that. I was like, “I am not Glutter girl!” but he said “Sham-Shackleton is just clumsy. 🙂
Sometimes I think the nineties will be like some other peoples 70s. I will go around saying. “You know there was a time when things were free and we believed in that.” I guess it’s now the backlash time for ultra conservatism everywhere.
yan
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