New Media + IT

My friend Jeppe just showed me a report on "Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007", where Denmark, where I live, is listed under "extensive surveillance societies".
Read the report and judge for yourself. Quite a scary bit of reading, if you ask me…

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[ categorized as: Censorship, Internet ]

As I've written earlier, the Chinese government is blocking access to Flickr — probably because of some pictures of the Tianmen Square being published onto Flickr.
However, help is on the way — if you're a Firefox user, that is.
According to CNET News you can get around the blockade using a Firefox extension. The extension is [...]

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The Chinese government who apparently stops at nothing in trying to keep the Chinese citizens from having any good use of the internet is now apparently disabling access to photo sharing site Flickr. The reason: Pictures from the massacre at the Tianmen Square has been published on Flickr.
This means that the German government should cut [...]

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[ categorized as: Censorship ]

Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday.
More at Infoworld: "Google Korea to censor search results"

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[ categorized as: Censorship, Google, Search ]

Nothing lasts forever, and according to CNN China's »easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia« WikiPedia is no exception. Too bad :(

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[ categorized as: Censorship ]

According to BBC News the Chinese government has just re-allowed the people of China to visit WikiPedia.org.
The news of the Chinese move seems to come from Reporters Without Borders.
I am very much against censoring what people may or may not see on the web, so this is kind of a big thing for me :-)

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