In an effort to live up to its promise to end censorship, Google has closed down its Beijing office and has begun redirecting tens of millions of Chinese users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong. However, the effect was short-lived as the Chinese government quickly responded, blocking mainland users’ access to search results [...]
Since the internet came to China over a decade ago, the government has attempted to limit access to content, with greater censorshipefforts more recently. However as The Wall Street Journal reports, the government is not succeeding in its efforts:
In 2009, Beijing lost a big battle, too, in the so-called Green Dam episode. It was [...]
In a piece from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times titled Boycott Microsoft Bing, Kristof observes that text and image searches in simplified Chinese characters (those used in mainland China) return sanitized results. He also says that Microsoft’s responses to the problem have been inconsistent over the last few months, ranging from a [...]
In a town hall style meeting on Sunday in Beijing, President Obama expressed his opinion regarding Chinese restrictions on internet access. The Associated Press reports:
It was a delicately balanced message and Obama couched his admonitions with words calling for cooperation, heavy with praise and American humility.
“I think that the more freely information flows, the [...]