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RSF Report on Chinese Internet Censorship »

By Curt on Oct 12, 2007 in Filtering, China's Internet cops, China, Censorship | 0 Comments

Reporters Without Borders has released a detailed 17-page .pdf report on Chinese Internet censorship efforts. (via Google Blogoscoped - thanks, Marshall)
“The government monitors the Internet by means of a skilful mix of filtering technologies, cyberpolice surveillance and propaganda, in all of which China invests massively,” the report says. It then details intersecting lines of authority […]

Symantec: Bricklayer at the Great Firewall »

By Curt on Sep 3, 2007 in Symantec, China's Internet cops, China | 0 Comments

Nart Villeneuve, an Internet censorship researcher, points out that the recent Associated Press article on the cartoon police officers of the Chinese Internet left out an important element of the story. Jingjing and Chacha, as they are called, are there to “help” people when they encounter so-called inappropriate materials.
Nart quotes a story by the […]