Monday, October 30, 2006

Chinese Censors Lift Wikipedia Ban!

We thought we'd never see the day, but the Chinese censors have lifted the long-standing ban on Wikipedia! Maybe they finally realized that because anybody can edit Wikipedia, they can just delete the stuff they don't like anyways. Of course, the Chinese government can organize more people to edit and delete articles than the rest of the Wikipedia community combined! Now the battle is likely to turn the other way, as Wikipedia bans Chinese IP addresses from presenting the world with lies and half-truths about topics sensitive to the regime.

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

Asking to have this Web site censored?

A pirated DVD store whose nextdoor neighbor is a police station? Only in China. Apparently as a result of some agreement with the police, this month the store can only be open between 2 pm and 10 pm. Now that's what I call getting tough on IP rights issues.

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

A great day for freedom of speech

The authorities here have finally decided to allow us to view blogs hosted by Google-owned Blogspot.com. Hopefully Wikipedia is next, but don't count on it. In the meantime, Chinese web users can view all Wikipedia articles in their entirety on Answers.com.

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