Wednesday, September 07, 2005
China now, but who next?
From The Dark Wraith Forums, Special Analysis:
Yahoo! Accused of Providing China with Information to Jail Reporter
Dark Wraith provides several links to articles such as the following. Internet censorship and the release of E-mail records should be a concern for everyone involved with the Internet.
Information supplied by Yahoo ! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison
Another link from Dark Wraith's analysis - Microsoft's compliance with censorship raises alarms.
Yahoo! Accused of Providing China with Information to Jail Reporter
...For bloggers to ignore this emerging threat is to stand willing to be victims one day of similar actions, which might occur not in a socially repressive, free-market country like China, but in a far closer but equally socially repressive, free-market country.
Dark Wraith provides several links to articles such as the following. Internet censorship and the release of E-mail records should be a concern for everyone involved with the Internet.
Information supplied by Yahoo ! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison
...Translated into English by the Dui Hua Foundation (which works to document the cases of Chinese political prisoners), the verdict reveals that Yahoo ! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. provided the Chinese investigating organs with detailed information that apparently enabled them to link Shi’s personal e-mail account (huoyan-1989@yahoo.com.cn) and the specific message containing information treated as a “state secret” to the IP address of his computer...
Another link from Dark Wraith's analysis - Microsoft's compliance with censorship raises alarms.
BEIJING -- Chinese bloggers who use Microsoft's new Web portal to post messages captioned "democracy," "capitalism," "liberty" or "human rights" are greeted with a scolding response.
A bright yellow warning appears: "This message includes forbidden language. Please delete the prohibited expression."
The restrictions were agreed upon by Microsoft and its Chinese partner, the government-linked Shanghai Alliance Investment. But the forbidden words have sparked a debate here and in the online world about how free speech could be threatened when the world's most powerful software company forges an alliance with the largest Communist country.
