Category Archives: Zhong Guo, Middle Kingdom

You know. When I felt quite annoyed in the recent BBC panel because "Free speech is a huge issue because people go to jail for saying what they think," and one or two of the other panelists seemed to not quite get it. L.e.t. m.e. s.p.e.l.l. i.t. o.u.t. t.o. y.o.u. China: Amnesty International fears forContinue reading “News: Missing Chinese Activists, Pro-Democracy Blogger, Bishop Zen named Cardinal”

I am sooooo highly amused.. One dramatic moment in the hearing came when Lantos peered down from the panel and asked each executive: "Are you ashamed?" How much would I have given to have C-span last night… (that’s the US channel that shows congressional and senate debates in full. And now I know the answerContinue reading “News: Internet giants asked “Are you Ashamed” in Congress Hearing…(ha!)”

Oh what a Fabulous Birthday present…. 🙂 — New US bill stops businesses from aiding communism Friday Feb 17 11:23 AEDT After branding Internet companies Google and Yahoo as tools of China’s communist government, the US Congress passed a new bill today prohibiting US businesses from aiding Internet-restricting countries in the censorship of online content.Continue reading “News: New US bill stops businesses from aiding repression”

AFX News Limited FOCUS – Proposed ‘online freedom act’ may hurt US and US-listed China firms 02.16.2006, 07:01 AM     —- by Chris Myrick —- SHANGHAI (AFX) – A bill to be introduced to the US Congress, which aims to prevent internet companies from facilitating censorship overseas, may not only limit US companies’ abilityContinue reading “News: Proposed ‘online freedom act’ may hurt US and US-listed China firms”

  Zhong Guo. I was on the BBC World Service Last night for about a half hour debating the topic of Chinese Censorship. My friend said the link was impossible to find on the site. So here it is. Listen And for the record, I didn’t say that I don’t like censorship because it bansContinue reading “The Link to the BBC World Service Debate I was on.”

It’s still Valentines Day in the Europe and US!! Students for a Free Tibet has launched a website, NoLuv4Google.com, dedicated to helping people "break up" with Google on Valentine’s Day. Our supporters have sent over 42,000 emails to Google’s executives through our online actions and about 1700 people have alrady committed to boycott Google onContinue reading “NoLuv4Google.com. Do you Need Help Because Google Let You Down?”

Zhong Guo. As the strangest Valentine ever (but absolutely the coolest), I was invited to discuss Censorship in China on the BBC World Service on a show called "World: Have Your Say." I was pretty much the only person on the panel of four that found Censorship in China an actual problem. Listen Tian aContinue reading “Talking on the BBC World Service on Chinese Censorship…”

CHINA Calls for killers of Wu Xianghu to be brought to trial Reporters Without Borders has called for the killers to be brought to trial of Wu Xianghu, deputy editor of Taizhou Evening News in Zhejiang province, eastern China, who died on 2 February 2006 from injuries inflicted by police who stormed the paper’s officesContinue reading “Reporter Murdered By Police Over Article.”

Reporters Without Borders / Internet Freedom desk CHINAAnother cyber-dissident imprisoned because of date provided by Yahoo Reporters Without Borders today condemned the US firm Yahoo! for handing over data on one of its users in China which enabled the authorities there to send him to prison for eight years, the second such case that hasContinue reading “News: Another cyber-dissident imprisoned because of date provided by Yahoo. Congressional Hearing on American Companies Censorship”

Chinese lawyer hits out at regime     Defiant human rights activist Gao Zhisheng tells Jonathan Watts in Beijing that Europe must not ‘honeymoon’ with a state that murders millions Sunday    January   29, 2006The Observer    France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one dayContinue reading “News: Chinese Journalist Arrested, Article on a Beijing based Human Rights Activist.”