Baidu’s Employees Got Bribed To Control News Contents

Herman Lai, Aug 6, 2012 4:12 PM, 269 views, Got something to say ?,

Baidu recently has fired several employees because they have been deleting users’ post for cash, and police became involved due to the large amount of money involved. It appeared to be a way for companies to keep its reputation clean among the public by removing negative press and reviews from websites.

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Communist China is Still Trying to Keep Porn Banned

Star Chang, Aug 2, 2012 5:16 AM, 1,583 views, Got something to say ?,

More than 10,000 suspects have been arrested and 600 criminal gangs “busted” in China’s latest cybercrime crackdown. The crackdown targeted pornography and the illegal sale of personal details. Beijing’s police force said the crack down on internet-related crimes are as a part of its efforts to “protect the physical and mental health of young people” using the web. The authorities have busted a major domestic porn site with over a million members, where some of its operators were underage …

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Cartoon: China-style Internet Policy

Star Chang, Jul 26, 2012 8:06 PM, 426 views, Got something to say ?,

It’s an old cartoon, it has been circulated on the Internet for some time, but still interesting to share it with our readers. Last year, we remember British officials publicly considered implementing temporary censorship measures to control rampant urban rioting. But after China’s state-run media praised the idea, Britain abandoned it. Some speculate that the China authorities’ praise embarrassed the British government into dropping its censorship plans. Nowadays, western countries are getting a lot of staff from China, but this does not include any form of communism …

More Censorship and Termination on Chinese Social-media

Star Chang, Jul 24, 2012 9:55 PM, 421 views, Got something to say ?,

Sina deleted the official microblog of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, while searches for it return “In accordance with relevant laws and policies, search results cannot be displayed”. The account of spokesperson for the U.S. Consulate Generate in Shanghai, was banned from posting message too. Sina Weibo, the country’s leading social-media platform boasts nearly 300 million registered users. It can be considered the China’s version of Twitter and it’s the most influential one. Previously, the official account of The New York Times on Sina Weibo was also terminated for no reason. Most surprisingly, even the Chinese words for “the truth” could not be searched on weibo …

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Has China Provides ‘Pervasive Access’ to 80 Percent of the World’s Telecommunications ?

Star Chang, Jul 18, 2012 7:17 PM, 711 views, 3 Comments »,

According to a former senior security policy analyst from OSD (Office of the Secretary of Defense), the Chinese government has “pervasive access” to some 80 percent of the world’s communications, giving it the ability to undertake remote industrial espionage and even sabotage electronically of critical infrastructures in the United States and in other industrialized countries. The authorities and Chinese army are acquiring the access through Huawei and ZTE. The two companies give the Chinese remote electronic “backdoor” access through the equipment they have installed in telecommunications networks in 140 countries …

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SlideShare Gets Blocked in China

Star Chang, Jul 12, 2012 10:37 AM, 470 views, Got something to say ?,

SlideShare, which is bought by LinkedIn for $119 million in early May, is not loading in China right now. China known pretty well for its rich history of banning foreign websites over China’s web space, now Slideshare is the latest entrant to be black-listed. As with many items relating to web censorship in China, it is unclear what caused the blockage. Though the process is shrouded in uncertainty, Chinese censors are thought to hone in on controversial content on the web, from where Facebook, twitter and youtube are blocked. It might be one particular file, or comment have triggered the issue …

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Chinese State TV Censored Michelangelo’s David “Penis” (Video)

Herman Lai, Jul 10, 2012 11:30 AM, 676 views, 1 Comment »,

The Chinese Government uses censorship to weed out all the things it doesn’t want its citizens reading about, listening to or watching. Lately, the genitals of Michelangelo’s David statue seems to be something that Chinese government doesn’t want their citizens to look at.

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The New York Times is not Allowed to Get Socialize on Chinese Internet

Star Chang, Jul 4, 2012 7:00 PM, 312 views, Got something to say ?,

The American veteran daily newspaper The New York Times has just launched a Chinese language web site, targeting China’s “educated, affluent, global citizens.” The site will be a combination of translations from the New York Times main website as well as articles written by Chinese editors and local freelance journalists. The company has also applied an account on Sina Weibo, the most popular Twitter-like microblogging service in China. After getting socialize with Chinese internet user for less than a week, their official account on Sina Weibo was terminated for no reason, but the Times’s Chinese website remains unblocked. That may indicate the Beijing authorities sees social media as inherently more dangerous than static web content …

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China Blocks Bloomberg.com for Revealing the Fortunes of China’s Next President

Star Chang, Jul 1, 2012 8:22 AM, 483 views, 1 Comment »,

Web users in mainland China are unable to access Bloomberg and Businessweek sites, after the news agency has published an article about the fortunes of Vice President Xi Jinping’s extended family. China is gearing up for Mr Xi to take over as Communist Party leader in the autumn, and president next spring. In a sign of how sensitive these kind of revelations can be, the authorities immediately blocked access to Bloomberg’s website and also appeared to restrict on searching the Chinese name of Xi Jinping and any related stories on Chinese social media …

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China President’s Name Ban on Chinese Social Media For ‘Patriotic Act’

Star Chang, Jun 21, 2012 12:50 PM, 1,077 views, Got something to say ?,

Chinese President Hu Jintao picks up a Chinese national flag sticker that has marked his spot for a group photo taken at the G20 summit in Mexico. Each leader’s position was marked with the appropriate national flag sticker. President Hu was the only leader to pick his up and his action has heat up a great discussion on Chinese Internet. Major Chinese news agency praise Hu for his patriotism, for picking up the ‘pride of China’. But Chinese net citizen later found out that their president was actually trying to free his shoes from gluey confusion caused by the flag sticker. The discovery has led to a censorship on searching the Chinese name of Hu Jintao on Chinese social media …

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