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u.s. poll: chinese citizens want internet censorship

May 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There are more than 210 million Internet users in China, and according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly all of them want Big Brother watching over their shoulders when they surf.
From the report:

Many Americans assume that China’s internet users are both aware of and unhappy about their government’s oversight and control of […]

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update: wikileaks beats the big bad bankers

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

An update on the story of the court-ordered injunction forcing Wikileaks’s U.S. site to shut down. The Swiss-based Julius Baer bank had argued that documents leaked on Wikileaks were stolen and confidential, while Wikileaks said the documents offered insight into the bank’s shady dealings in the Cayman Islands. Now the bank is backing […]

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