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Second Amendment Mojo
I’ve learned something this US election cycle. Instead of paying phony lip service to the NRA and right-wing gun lobby like Hillary “Annie Oakley” Clinton, every American politician should have a...
View ArticleExporting democracy
ABC News is getting roundly criticized about the way it produced the Obama-Clinton debates yesterday. It’s was so bad, there are over 12,000 comments on the ABC News site related to the debate. A...
View ArticleThe Sports Network hacked
An ominous message showed up early Sunday on the Web site of The Sports Network (TSN), one of the more popular sports news destinations in the US: Please Note The Sports Network website and other major...
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No Dogs or Frenchmen
You have to give China’s citizens credit — when they’re unleashed (no pun intended) and able to express their dismay, they can get creative. Over at Shanghaiist, they have the latest sign to make the...
View ArticleCNN hacker tech?
Not sure where Narus.com gets their info, but they seem to have the scoop on the details of the CNN DDOS attack last week. Multiple sites of CNN (www.cnn.com, www4.cnn.com, edition.cnn.com) were the...
View ArticleBuffet on China
Billionaire Warren Buffet at his annual shareholder’s meeting this week warned about getting too sanctimonious in criticizing China. Via The Standard (HK). Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett...
View ArticleGreat Firewall playing nice(r)
On the evening of July 31, 2008, Beijing time, reports started to roll in on Twitter that Web sites previously considered hard blocked in China were suddenly accessible. Among the sites now allowed for...
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GreenDam postponed
It’s July 1, and in China the ominous deadline to implement the Green Dam/Youth Escort internet filtering software has been postponed, to much rejoicing by Internet users in the country. To outsiders,...
View ArticleIn Brief: Google’s China Move
UPDATE: A more detailed version of this Backgrounder for news reporters can be downloaded as a PDF version. Google announced today in a blog post that it has redirected visitors headed for google.cn to...
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