Absurdity, Allegory and China

I was fortunate enough to watch live last evening the informative roundtable discussion hosted by the New America Foundation Authority, Meet Technology: Will China’s Great Firewall Hold? as I mentioned yesterday here. For those interested in internet freedom on the eve of Secretary of State Clinton’s speech on the subject, I’ve embedded the YouTube link [...]

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Mark this one on your calendar: Authority, Meet Technology, “…a Slate/New America Foundation event about China, Google, and Internet freedom.” How will the China-Google skirmish shake out? What lessons or cautionary tales does China’s experience offer repressive governments and their tech-savvy opponents in places like Iran and Cuba? What, if anything, should the Obama administration [...]

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A provocative question was posed at DigiCha in the title of a blog post a few days back: Will Google, Facebook and Twitter Please Join as Sponsors of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 What better message could the USA send to the world than to have the three standard bearers of 21st [...]

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A post at ESWN (EastSouthWestNorth) entitled The Truth About The Google Affair claims to have information of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plants within Google’s Shanghai office. While this in itself would not be a surprise, that it took so little time for it to actually become public is. The post is “a translation of an [...]

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When Google made the decision to accept censorship constraints in order to enter the Chinese market, Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We concluded that although we weren’t wild about the restrictions, it was even worse to not try to serve those users at all. We actually did an ‘evil’ scale and decided ‘not to [...]

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