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[News] [OT] Honest Assessment of a Suppressive Regime is Too Much for China

  • Subject: [News] [OT] Honest Assessment of a Suppressive Regime is Too Much for China
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:59:32 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
China bans INQ and Kave

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| THE Glorious People's Republic of China appears to have shut the INQ and its 
| message board, the Kave, out of the country in a move to protect its citizens 
| from our evil ways.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/31/china-bans-inq-kave

Also new (and ridiculous):

TSA makes flying more miserable

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| It seems lithium is the new WMD
|
| THERE WAS A talk at the last Defcon and the TSA came up. Paraphrased, the 
| message was that Kip Hawley, the TSA Administrator wondered why it is hated 
| so much. It answered its own question this week with a ban on lithium 
| batteries.   
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/30/tsa-makes-flying-miserable


Days ago:

Beijing Blocks Microsoft Deal With Electronics Maker

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| Chinese securities regulators have stiff-armed Microsoft, blocking an 
| application by Sichuan Changhong Electric Co. to sell shares to the U.S. 
| software giant and other investors.  
| 
| The China Security Regulatory Commission gave no reason for its decision, but 
| it comes after a spate of accusations that news of the Microsoft deal was  
| leaked to allow insiders in the Chinese electronics manufacturer to benefit 
| from the resulting spike in the price of its shares.   
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http://www.forbes.com/markets/economy/2007/12/28/msft-sichuan-changhong-markets-equity-cx_jc_1228markets3.html


Related:

Watchdog: Beijing Threatens Free Speech

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| A Beijing city regulation clamping down on people who send text messages 
| that "spread rumors" or "endanger public security" is a threat to freedom of 
| expression, a watchdog group said Monday.  
| 
| China Human Rights Defenders, an international network of activists and 
| rights monitoring groups, said the recent regulation on text messages "raises 
| serious concerns over the restriction of freedom of expression in China."  
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http://news.theage.com.au/watchdog-beijing-threatens-free-speech/20071225-1ivr.html


Open source protester crashes speech by Bill Gates at Chinese University

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| Gates, who is very popular on Chinese campuses, had just finished a
| speech at Peking University and was handing out prizes to students
| when a Chinese man walked on stage and unveiled a banner with "free
| software, open source" written in English on it.
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http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/apr/20/open_source_protester_crashes_speech_by_bill_gates_at_chinese_university


Yahoo Betrays Free Speech

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| For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet’s liberating power, 
| Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin


Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers

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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems 
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7


Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists

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| Smith sponsored the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prohibit 
| U.S. Internet companies from cooperating with repressive regimes on censoring 
| the Internet and using Internet user account data to track down and punish 
| pro-democracy activists.   
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815950-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists

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| Terms of the deal are secret, but Yahoo has reached settlements with two 
| Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the company 
| provided to the ruling Communist government.  
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2031243&from=rss


Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China

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| A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on 
| the company's cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist 
| who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its 
| online edition.   
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216579.html


Yahoo helped China falsely imprison dissident

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| U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
| said on Oct. 16 Yahoo misled his panel at a 2006 hearing about the
| company's role in providing the Chinese government with information
| that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for a decade.
|
| [...]
|
| "Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false
| information to Congress in early 2006," Lantos said in a statement.
| "We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to
| account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved
| untrue."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2199220,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594


Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government

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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government 
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of 
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an 
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.   
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/


Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior

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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal 
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make 
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.  
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823


Yahoo in China human rights case

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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in 
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China. 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm


Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital

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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence 
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the 
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned 
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and 
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.    
`----

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09

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