6 posts and columns on censors

Will Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get Traction?

in News on February 16, 2011 at 7:09 am PT

Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart “thugs, hackers and censors.” Since that’s about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming. Clinton’s speech, thankfully, was much better.

Facebook Steps Up Security After Tunisian Hacks

in Social on January 26, 2011 at 10:30 am PT

Facebook is rolling out to all its users the security features it added to stop the Tunisian government from accessing citizens’ passwords.

Facebook Chief Meets With China's Web Leaders

in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg met with some of China’s top technology executives on a visit to Beijing this week that was billed as a vacation, fueling speculation about the social-networking site’s ambitions to enter a market where it is blocked by censors.

China Is Losing a War Over Internet

in News on December 31, 2009 at 11:32 am PT

These appear to be dark days for the Internet in China. Four months into a crusade against Internet pornography, the government is closing thousands of sites–some pornographic, some not–and tightening rules on who can register Web addresses inside China.