China Blocking Technorati.com

Technorati.com, a service that provides search and indexing of weblogs, has been blocked by the Chinese government:

From “Mad About Shanghai” blog:
“It looks to me like Technorati has been blocked by the Great Firewall of China.
Since yesterday I have been (unsuccessfully) trying to access Technorati, but each time I have tried, the connection is refused.
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Yet another […]

Posted on April 26th, 2006 by buckaroo banzai in General

Google & China - Still a problem

The New York Times Magazine has a large article covering China’s internet, Google’s relationship with China, and the odd ways in which censorship has evolved behind the Great Firewall of China. The article starts with a critical look at Google’s January 2006 launch of the self-censoring version of its search engine on google.cn.
Yet Google’s conduct […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2006 by philo in Economic Rights, Multimedia

Reporter Ejected from Hu’s Yale Talk

I just spotted this.

A CNN reporter was thrown out of a private reception in Yale President Richard Levin’s office after he shouted a question about whether Hu had seen more than 1,000 protesters gathered on the city green.
Yale spokeswoman Helene Kalsky said the reporter was thrown out because, “We invited you to cover an event, […]

Posted on April 22nd, 2006 by philo in Multimedia, Protests

Getting in Hu’s Face

I’m on the bus back from New Haven, we’ve just pulled out of a rest area where we had a sinfully pleasant McDonald’s and Budweiser pit stop. Around one hundred Tibetans joined a thousand plus Falun Gong practitioners. Most of the Falun Gong are Chinese immigrants, though I met practitioners who flew to the US […]

Posted on April 22nd, 2006 by philo in Protests

Protest & The First Amendment

As I write this I’m on a bus that is entering Washington DC, where I and Tibetans and supporters (primarily the Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for a Free Tibet) with me on the bus are about to exercise all five rights accorded by the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Congress shall make no law […]

Posted on April 21st, 2006 by philo in Protests

Updates from Hu protests in Washington, DC

Noisy and colorful protests by Tibetans, Uighurs, Chinese democracy advocates and Falun Gong practitioners are underway in Washington, DC as President Bush meets with Hu Jintao. See below for links and excerpts from news articles reporting on the day’s events. Keep checking back for updates and photos.

Photos from Thursday’s protest in DC (photos available […]

Posted on April 20th, 2006 by kate in General, Protests

Statement by Students for a Free Tibet regarding the decision to protest Hu Jintao during his US visit

After careful consideration of the Kashag (Tibetan Cabinet) request for Tibetans and supporters not to protest during Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States this week, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) has chosen to continue with our planned demonstrations. We did give very serious consideration to the Kashag’s appeal and consulted with SFT members, […]

Posted on April 20th, 2006 by kate in General

Yahoo Helps Jail Yet Another Chinese Cyber Dissident

Yahoo has provided China with evidence that helped them convict a Yahoo email user, Jiang Lijun. Here’s some info and there is an action you can do below!
Yahoo Inc. may have helped Chinese police to identify an Internet writer who was subsequently jailed for four years for subversion in the third such case, an advocacy […]

Posted on April 19th, 2006 by philo in China Watch, Political Prisoners

Seattle: Hu Protest Pics

Here are some pictures from yesterday’s protests of Hu Jintao, courtesy of David Huang. The demonstration was led by SFTers from the US and Canada, as well as the Seattle and Portland Regional Tibetan Youth Congresses.

Expect more photos of SFT’s protests against Hu Jintao’s US visit the rest of the week.

Tomorrow Hu will be “greeted” […]

Posted on April 19th, 2006 by philo in Protests, Video, Photos and Audio

Where’d that desert come from?

Did you know Beijing, China’s capital and the pending site for the 2008 summer Olympics, is now in the middle of a desert? That’s right folks, thanks to rapid overdevelopment, destructive practices of water use, and widespread deforestation, the Gobi Desert has expanded at an alarming rate. It has grown so swiftly that it now […]

Posted on April 17th, 2006 by philo in China Watch, Olympics

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