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Jan 19

Google article on New Matilda

Posted by Colin in Internet, Writing on 01 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment

There’s a piece by me today over on New Matilda on the Google/China fight. It’s nice to write about someone else’s filtering problems for once.

Have a read here.

Jan 15

Flowers for Google – reactions inside China

Posted by Colin in Internet, Writing on 01 15th, 2010 | 3 Comments

Note: Colin lived in China in 2009 and as EFA’s internet censorship spokesman has previously commented on China’s Internet Censorship regime.

Google’s threat, in the wake of apparent Chinese government espionage, to withdraw from the Chinese market completely has created a storm of comment in the media and blogosphere. Google has been praised for a principled “don’t be evil” stand at the same time they’ve been lambasted for political naivete, opportunism or profit-seeking.The truth is no doubt a mixture between corporate pragmatism and idealism, as one would expect.

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